Details
FISCHER, Kitty
TWO WOVEN COTTON PILLOWS
both c.early 1930s, each with geometric weave in earth tones and blue, each with fringe to one edge, - each 24in.(61cm.)wide
See Illustration (2)
TWO WOVEN COTTON PILLOWS
both c.early 1930s, each with geometric weave in earth tones and blue, each with fringe to one edge, - each 24in.(61cm.)wide
See Illustration (2)
Provenance
Christie's Amsterdam, 22 October 1996, sale of the estate of Kitty Fischer
Further details
Kitty van der Mijll Dekker was born in Java in 1908, moving to Holland in 1916. In 1925 she studied fine art at the Hornsea School of Art in London, and in 1929 studied interior decoration at the Institute of Decorative and Applied Art in The Hague. On the advice of her cousin, the architect J.W.F. Buys, Kitty enrolled at the Bauhaus, Dessau, and studied the preliminary course under Josef Albers. It had been Kitty's intention to study the architectural course, however Albers instead suggested that she follow the weaving course under Guta Stolz, which she did. Kitty completed her stay at the Bauhaus with the Bauhaus certificate on 12 April 1932. She immediately returned to her home town, Nunspect, and started her own weaving-workshop "De Wipstrik". In 1934 she established a new workshop with two co-students from the Bauhaus, Herman and Greten Fischer-Kahler. Until its closure in the 1960s, the workshop's commissions included the Dutch Royal family, and various public buildings. Kitty married Herman in 1950.