Until Sunday 1 December 2024 the exhibition ‘The Bauhaus girls and the Margarete Heymann case’, curated by Carlo Terrosi, can be visited at the Sala Carroponte of the Centro Arti Opificio Siri, in Terni.
The exhibition celebrates Margarete Heymann, one of the first women enrolled in the Bauhaus art school and an illustrious ceramics designer, and consists of 150 works, including ceramics, metal objects, period textiles and re-editions by Bauhaus school masters.
Also on display will be some lithographs by Vasily Kandinsky that are part of the permanent collection of the Aurelio De Felice Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
After the death of her husband, the artist courageously took over the important ceramics production company, the Haël Workshops for Artistic Ceramics, showing a willingness to incorporate Bauhaus design and lines into her ceramics, considered avant-garde at the time.
Jewish by birth, Margarete Heymann was not slow to attract personal attacks from the Nazis, attracted by the importance of her company. So much so that in the early 1930s she was forced to close the factory, undergoing a veritable Aryanisation process.
The aim of the exhibition is to rediscover the importance of the role of women in the Bauhaus, but it is also and above all a tribute and a morally due act to Margarete Heymann, a victim of abuse by the Nazi government, unjustly marginalised due to racial discrimination.
For more information:
website: Caos Museum