La Bauhaus y sus “experimentos innecesarios”: las arquitectas prófugas

Abstract

This text approaches the fascinating experience of the women who studied in the famous school of the Bauhaus (1919-1933). It centres on the feminine group that was formed there in architecture and that they would turn with posteriority into professionals of prestige into this area. After a description of the general situation of these studies in the Germany of period between the wars -period that coincides with the existence of the Republic of Weimar and the Bauhaus- approaches the curious politics of kind that practised the famous artistic center with regard to his pupils. A few students that were, initially, the half of his student body. The article develops the case of three figures of recognized international prestige that were formed in that institution: Lotte Stam-Beese, Annemarie Mauck and Wera Meyer-Waldeck. Original that remain inventoried in the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin (BHA).