In a sense, fashion is the most intimate form of design. Under National Socialism, it was both the target of robbery and expropriation. The presentation, which emerged from Elizabeth Otto's book project The Bauhaus in Nazi Germany, follows three artists trained at the Bauhaus into the world of fashion. Herbert Bayer created elegant, modern advertising graphics for ADEFA, the “Association of German-Aryan Manufacturers of the Clothing Industry,” which drove Jews out of the industry. Hedwig Slutzky and Lisbeth Oestreicher, both Jews, fell into the expanding power apparatus of the National Socialist regime; sewing and knitting kept them alive in the concentration camps for at least a while. What significance do creativity, complicity and the will to survive have when design also serves robbery and dispossession?
Speaker: Elizabeth Otto
PROGRAM & MODERATION Britta Bommert
Fashion program theme Fashion 2026/2027 for download (PDF, 700 KB)
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Kulturforum
Bauhaus artists under National Socialism: fashion design, complicity and survival
Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin, BerlinIn a sense, fashion is the most intimate form of design. Under National Socialism, it was both the target of robbery and expropriation. The presentation, which emerged from Elizabeth Otto's book project The Bauhaus in Nazi Germany, follows three artists trained at the Bauhaus into the world of fashion. Herbert Bayer created elegant, modern advertising graphics for ADEFA, the “Association of German-Aryan Manufacturers of the Clothing Industry,” which drove Jews out of the industry. Hedwig Slutzky and Lisbeth Oestreicher, both Jews, fell into the expanding power apparatus of the National Socialist regime; sewing and knitting kept them alive in the concentration camps for at least a while. What significance do creativity, complicity and the will to survive have when design also serves robbery and dispossession?
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