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=Ilse Fehling (1896-1982)= Ilse Fehling (April 25, 1896 Danzig, Germany- February 25, 1982, Munich, Germany) was an artist, draftsperson, stage and costume designer, and sculptor.

Early Life
She grew up in northern Germany. Her father was a professional soldier. Her parents divorced in 1913. After a girls school, she attended the Roquette college for ladies in Lubeck.[1]

She moved to Berlin in 1918 and studied art at the Kunstgewerbeschule. In 1920 she began to study at the Weimar Bauhaus, studying with Johannes Itten, Georg Muche, Paul Klee, among others.

Career
She first exhibited her work at the Overbeck Society in Lubeck in 1922. Fehling was the only female sculptor at the school. Although she never graduated from the Bauhaus, she had a successful career, as she gained fame from her stage and costume designs for theatres and films.[2] She developed a circular stage design, which was patented in 1922. [2]

In 1923 she was hired as a stage designer for Chrysanthus and Daria by Calderon at the Berliner Theater. Meanwhile she opened her own studio in 1923 and married Klaus Henry S. Witting. In 1924 she became costumer for Schauspieltheater. She gave birth to a daughter Gaby in 1928 when the couple divorced. In 1943 her sculpture and materials was bombed. Continuing hardships in the aftermath of the war caused a breakdown in 1947. She recovered and moved to Munich in 1952 where she resumed her work on films and in theater. In 1990 she had a solo exhibition “Ilse Fehling, bauhaus bühne akt skulptur 1922-1967” at Bernd Durr’s Munich gallery. Selected pieces were included in a Bauhaus Dessau exhibition in 1992.

References

Buller, Rachel Epp (2010-01-01). "Review of Bauhaus Women: Art, Handicraft, Design, Ulrike Müller". Woman's Art Journal. 31 (2): 55–57. JSTOR 41331089.

Bauhaus women : art, handicraft, design