Ilse Fehling | |
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 Ilse Fehling in 1928 | |
| Born | April 25, 1896 Danzig-Langfuhr, Germany |
| Died | February 25, 1982 Munich, Germany |
Ilse Fehling was a German costume designer and sculptor associated with the Bauhaus and Nazi propaganda films.
Ilse Fehling | |
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| Ilse Fehling in 1928 | |
| Born | April 25, 1896 Danzig-Langfuhr, Germany |
| Died | February 25, 1982 Munich, Germany |
Ilse Fehling was a German costume designer and sculptor associated with the Bauhaus and Nazi propaganda films.
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] It was there that Fehling began to study sculpture. [2]
In 1920, Fehling matriculated at the Bauhaus Weimar, where much of her work focused on theatre design. Additionally, she studied sculpture, painting, and theory of harmonization [2] under a number of prominent artists including Oskar Schlemmer, Paul Klee, and Gertrud Grunow. [3] [4] Out of her work at the school, Fehling's best known is the rotating round puppet stage she designed and later patented [5] in her theater class with Lothal Schreyer. [2]
In 1923, she left the Bauhaus for Berlin to work as a freelance sculptor and stage and costume designer. [3]
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. [3]
Following the Nazi rise to power, Fehling's work was deemed degenerate and its exhibition was banned. [3] Much of her work was lost due to bombing and confiscation during World War II. [1]
Fehling had begun working as a costume designer in 1926 [6] and continued this work after the 1933 rise of Nazism in Germany, working on propaganda films including Der Herrscher. [7]
In 1940, Fehling began work at Tobis-Europa as the chief outfitter. [2] Here she optimized the costume department by expanding and continuing to develop it. [2] While working there, Fehling implemented a system for reusing previously-worn costumes. [2] During World War II, she published an article on creative costume reuse in the popular fashion press as an inspiration to women living under rationing. [8]
By 1946, Fehling lived in Rottack before returning to Munich in 1952 where she lived out the rest of her life. [2] Fehling opened her own studio after settling in Munich, where she worked on sculptures, stage sets, and press drawings. [2] Fehling did some additional work in Geneva, where her daughter was an international student. [2] Her final design project was for the Cologne cinema "Die Lupe" in 1965, where she conceptualized the interior design. [2]
In 1923, Fehling married Henry S. Witting. In 1928, she gave birth to a daughter, Gaby; she divorced Witting a year later. [1] Fehling died on February 25, 1982.
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