Bauhaus Women: Weimar's revolutionary female artists and how the avant-garde Bauhaus School changed their lives forever

“The Bauhaus. That was an idea, more, an ideal. No difference between draftsmen and artists. Everyone together in a new community, we should build the cathedral of the future. I wanted to be a part of it. And something happened that freed us. We did not learn to paint, but learned to see anew, to think anew, and at the same time we learned to know ourselves” - Re Soupault

I’ve been meaning to do an episode about the Bauhaus, which is central to the aesthetics of the Weimar Republic and changed modern design and architecture around the world. I was going to focus on the founders and teachers, but I stumbled upon a wonderful book about the extraordinary lives of women who trained at the Bauhaus. I’ve had trouble finding good, readable histories of women in the Weimar Republic, so starting from their perspectives is a great way to begin discussing the school. This episode is about five amazing women whose lives were changed by the Bauhaus: what it brought them, their struggles and achievements at the school, and their lives afterwards.