Kattina Both
Katt Both (1905–1985) was a German photographer, furniture designer and architect. Both studied furniture design at the Bauhaus from 1924 to 1928, under László Moholy-Nagy. Following this she worked for the brothers Hans and Wassili Luckhardt in Berlin.
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Kattina Both
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- Name
- Katt Both
- Birthplace
- Waldkappel, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
- Died
- 1985
- Place of death
- Kassel, West Germany
- Movement
- Bauhaus
- Born
- 1905 · Waldkappel.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- architect · photographer
- Languages
- German
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Biography
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In March 1929 Otto Haesler in Celle hired her, where she was the first woman architect. Her work is included in the collections of the Getty Museum, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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Celle is recorded as a place of activity by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Katt both, sedia da bambini, 1927
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Key facts
• Name — Katt Both • Birthplace — Waldkappel, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire • Died — 1985 • Place of death — Kassel, West Germany • Movement — Bauhaus
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Kattina Both, an architect, designer and photographer, was born on 28 April 1905 in Waldkappel and died on 21 April 1985 in Kassel. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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• Illustration — Children's chair, 1927, by Katt Both • Illustration — Children's armoire, 1927 by Katt Both
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Waldkappel.
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Kassel.
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- 1.Atikah-cigarette, 1930-1931 by Katt Both. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au.
- 2.Maasberg, Ute. “We learned nothing”. deutschland.de. 18 December 2018.
- 3.Katt Both (Getty Museum). The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles.
- 4.Atikah Cigarettes, Katt Both; Publisher: Rudolf Kicken Gallery ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art. collections.artsmia.org.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Corinna Isabel Bauer: Bauhaus and Tessenow students. Kassel University Library, Kassel 2010, p. 330–332 (d-nb.info - dissertation, completed in 2003).
- Patrick Rössler, Elizabeth Otto : Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists. Knesebeck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9, pp. 88–89.
- Ute Maasberg, Regina Prinz: The new ones are coming! Female avant-garde in the architecture of the twenties. Junius, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-88506-550-9, p. 73-78 .
- Simone Oelker: Otto Haesler. A career as an architect in the Weimar Republic. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-935549-15-6, pp. 316–317 .
- Renate Petzinger, Christine Jachmann: Contemporary witnesses. In: Union internat. Des femmes architectes, Section Federal Republic e. V. (Ed.): Architectural History. *Catalog. On the history of women architects and designers in the 20th century; a 1st compilation. Berlin 1987, p. 47–48 (contains interview with Katt Both).
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