Gunta Stölzl

Stölzl ran the Bauhaus weaving workshop from 1926, the first woman to become a Bauhaus master, and turned it from a craft class into a laboratory for industrial textiles: new synthetic yarns, sound-absorbing and light-reflecting fabrics, and patterns designed for machine production and sold under licence. Her own wall hanging Five Choirs of 1928 shows her painterly side. Many women were steered into weaving at the Bauhaus against their wishes, and Stölzl made the workshop one of the school's few commercial successes. Anni Albers was among her students.