Otti Berger, photographed by Julia Moholy-Nagy, 1927.Most of the Bauhaus women reached an advanced a
Otti Berger, photographed by Julia Moholy-Nagy, 1927.Most of the Bauhaus women reached an advanced age, a long and creative life. Two of them were killed in concentration camps, one of them had been Otti Berger.It was in that period that the majority of the Bauhaus professors, including her fiancée Ludwig Hilberseimer, managed to obtain visas and leave for America. Otti Berger tried to do the same because in 1938 László Moholy-Nagy invited her to join the New Bauhaus in Chicago. Looking for work and waiting for the visa she had spent several brief periods in London. Her mother’s sickness, the inability to find work in England (she did not speak the language, was of impaired hearing, with no friends – for the English she was a German), in 1938 she came back to Zmajevac. Sadly, in April of 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz together with her family, and she died there. Source -- source link
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