Grit Kallin-Fischer
(Germany 1897–1973)
- Title
- Eduard Fischer on Mart Stam chairs, Bauhaus Dessau
- Alternative title:
- Eduard Fischer auf Mart Stam Stühlen, Bauhaus Dessau
- Year
- 1928
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph, vintage
- Dimensions
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23.8 x 17.8cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r. verso, pencil "Grit Kallin-Fisher / ... / ... 1928".
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Photography Collection Benefactors' Program 2006
- Accession number
- 57.2006
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Grit Kallin-Fischer was born in Frankfurt in 1897, and had a long and successful career as painter, graphic artist, sculptor and photographer. She studied painting under Lovis Corinth, Leipzig 1915-17, and moved to Berlin after World War I. She trained at the Bauhaus, 1926-28, under Albers, Klee, Kandinsky, and Moholy-Nagy, the latter influencing her in the photographic aesthetic she pursued. She also worked with Oskar Schlemmer and the Bauhaus Theatre. While at the Bauhaus, Kallin-Fischer met the American student Edward L Fischer and in 1934 they married in Berlin. They moved to New York and then to Pennsylvania, where she established a studio working with a variety of mediums. Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer collaborated in designing the Fischer residence in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
- Exhibition history (1)
-
Modern Times, Powerhouse Museum, 01 Aug 2008–08 Feb 2009.
