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Corona Krause

Portrait of Corona Krause, Photo: unknown, n.d.
Portrait of Corona Krause, Photo: unknown, n.d. © unbekannt.
  • Born on 16.8.1906 in Genua-Coronata, Italy
  • Died on 14.1.1948 in Hannover, Germany
  • Different spelling Korona Krause
  • Name after marriage Corona Stichs
  • Married to Friedrich Stichs
  • Profession Weber
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  • Bauhaus Weimar: Student
  • Burg Burg Giebichenstein

Corona Krause, born in Coronata near Genoa in 1906, came to the Bauhaus in Weimar at the age of 18 in 1924, where she studied weaving. A year later she did not take part in the move to Dessau, but continued her studies at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle. Corona Krause then worked as a textile and fashion designer. She has a daughter with the artist Friedrich Stichs. Krause died in Hanover in 1948. Her preliminary course work ‘Floating Sculpture’ was illustrated by her teacher László Moholy-Nagy in his Bauhaus book ‘From Material to Architecture’.

Literature:

· Magdalena Droste, Manfred Ludewig (1998): Das Bauhaus webt. Die Textilwerkstatt am Bauhaus, Berlin.
· Matina Kousidi: The Thread of Corona Krause, beyond the Bauhaus, in: AIS Design (6.6.2016).
· Sigrid Wortmann Weltge (1993): Bauhaus-textilien. Kunst und künstlerinnen der webwerkstatt, Schaffhausen.

More information of Corona Krause

Corona Krause, No Title, Composition, 1924.
© Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (I 43757) / (Krause, Corona (Korona) Gautel, Uta.
Corona Krause, No Title, Composition, 1924.

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