Else Oppler-Legband

Else Oppler-Legband (21 February 1875 in Nuremberg – 7 December 1965 in Überlingen) was a German architect and interior designer, costume designer and stylist.

She is one of the representatives of the Victorian dress reform which aimed to free women from sacramental constraints by reforming women's fashion in the 1910s and 1920s. She also worked for the cinema at the turn of the 1920s as costume designer and set designer.

Early years
Else Oppler-Legband was one of the representatives of the so-called “reform” of Fashion in the 1910s and 1920s, centered in Berlin. In innovative circles of design and architecture, aesthetic interest in naked forms, devoid of ornamentation, spread from fashion to architectural theory.

Costume designer and set designer for the cinema

 * 1919: König Nicolo
 * 1920: Der Schwarm der höheren Töchter
 * 1920: Schwarzwaldmädel
 * 1920: Die Kronjuwelen des Herzogs von Rochester
 * 1922: Marie Antoinette, das Leben einer Königin

Literature

 * Else Oppler-Legband: Die Höhere Schule für Dekorationskunst. In: Durchgeistigung der deutschen Arbeit. Jahrbuch des Deutschen Werkbundes 1912, Jena 1912, S. 105–110.
 * Gaby Franger: Else Oppler – Eine außergewöhnliche Künstlerin, 1875–1965. Nürnberg 2023, ISBN 978-3-935225-16-8