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Gunta Stlzl was a German textile artist who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus schools weaving workshop. As the Bauhauss only female master she created enormous change within the weaving department as it transitioned from individual pictorial works to modern industrial designs. She joined the Bauhaus as a student in 1920, became a junior master in 1927 and a full master the next year. She was dismissed for political reasons in 1931, two years before the Bauhaus closed under pressure from the Nazis.

Stlzl was born in Munich, Bavaria. She attended a high school for the daughters of professionals, graduating in 1913. She began her studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in 1914, where she studied glass painting, decorative arts and ceramics under the well known director Richard Riemerschmid. In 1917 Stlzls studies were interrupted by the ongoing war and she volunteered to work as a nurse for the Red Cross, behind the front lines until the end of World War I in 1918. Upon her return home she reimmersed herself in her studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich, where she participated in the schools curriculum reform. It was during this time that Stlzl encountered the Bauhaus manifesto. Having decided to continue her studies at the newly formed Bauhaus school, Stlzl spent the summer of 1919 in the glass workshop and mural painting classes of the Bauhaus to earn her trial acceptance into Johannes Ittens preliminary course. By 1920, Stlzl had not only been fully accepted into the Bauhaus sch

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