Gunta Stölzl born 1897.
Following her studies at Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Munich between 1913-16, and then serving in WW1 as a voluntary red cross nurse.
Stölzl continues her studies at the Bauhaus Weimar in autumn 1919. in 1923 she establishes dyeing facilities in the Weaving Workshop at the Bauhaus. By 1925 she was appointed craft master of the Weaving Workshop at the Bauhaus in Dessau.
Her first large knotted carpet is sold at the first Bauhaus exhibition in 1923. The new owner has a room especially built for the carpet, “some place in France”. The whereabouts of the carpet are unkown.
Bauhaus Fest
29.11.1924
Gunta Stölzl seated in the middle.
