User:Zhiweiwu1998/Margarete Willers: she/her, German, 1883-1977

Margarete Willers
Margarete Willers (born 1883) is a German artist who was born in 1883. Within a strict framework of squares and rectangles, Willers explores the possibilities of color and black-and-white patterning. She died in 1977.

Education and Experience
The artists at the Bauhaus Weaving Workshop began their studies, guided by masters such as Paul Klee, with a preliminary course on the basic elements of art and design. In her early works, Willers painted static objects as well as landscapes like flowers, houses, and trees. Her first artwork to be offered at auction was Blühende Topfpflanze at Winterberg in 2018 In MutualArt’s artist press archive, Margarete Willers is featured in Exhibition Explores the Art, Architecture, Design, and Philosophy of the Early Years of the Bauhaus, a piece from the ArtDaily in 2019. The artist died in 1977.

She was a student at the Bauhaus Weaving Workshop 1921-1922. From 1927-1928 she operated an independent weaving studio at the Dessau Bauhaus, making weaving her profession, and studied with Klee and Kandinsky. Willers taught her students Bauhaus idea as an artist and teacher, and remained closely associated with the Bauhaus pedagogy of Johannes Itten and the art theory of Paul Klee. After the war, Willers was one of the Bauhaus ambassadors. From 1928-1943 she acted as director of the Handweaving and Embroidery Studio at the Folkwangschule, Essen. From 1943-1955 she taught at the Handweaving Studio in Bückeberg. She operated her own independent studio from 1955, and retired in 1960.

Examples of Works

 * Blühende Topfpflanze (1917)
 * Stilleben mit Anemonenstrauß (1913)
 * Gehöft (1916)
 * Stilleben (1913–1913)

