Ilse Fehling

Ilse Fehling was a German costume designer and sculptor associated with the Bauhaus and Nazi propaganda films.

Ilse Fehling
Ilse Fehling in 1928
BornApril 25, 1896
Danzig-Langfuhr, Germany
DiedFebruary 25, 1982
Munich, Germany

Education

Ilse Fehling was born on April 25, 1896 in Danzig-Langfuhr, Germany. In 1919, Fehling enrolled at the Reimann School in Berlin, where she studied art and fashion design. While in Berlin, she additionally studied at the city's Kunstgewerbeschule.[1]

In 1920, Fehling matriculated at the Bauhaus Weimar, where her work involved theatre. At the school she studied under a number of prominent artists including Oskar Schlemmer, Paul Klee, and Gertrud Grunow.[2] Out of her work at the school, Fehling's best known is the rotating round puppet stage she designed and later patented.[3]

Career

In 1923, she left the Bauhaus for Berlin to work as a freelance sculptor and stage designer.[2] Fehling married Henry S. Witting the same year. In 1928, Fehling gave birth to a daughter, Gaby; she divorced Witting a year later.[1]

Fehling received the Rome Prize from the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1932; she later studied in Rome using a grant associated with the award.[1] In the following years, her work took influences from Cubism.[2]

Following the Nazi rise to power, Fehling's work was deemed degenerate and its exhibition was banned.[2] Much of her work was lost due to bombing and confiscation during World War II.[1]

Ilse Fehling worked as a costume designer for a number of Nazi propaganda films, including Der Herrscher.[4]

Fehling died on February 25, 1982.

References
  1. "Ilse Fehling". www.bauhaus100.com. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  2. Gotthardt, Alexxa (2017-04-03). "10 Forgotten Female Pioneers of the Bauhaus". Artsy. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  3. "Mujeres en la Bauhaus". La Vanguardia. 2019-03-12. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  4. Jung, Gerrit (2014-04-11). Veit Harlan – Ein Filmemacher im Faschismus (in German). diplom.de. ISBN 9783836631051.
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