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Thanks to a scholarship, from 1923 to 1927, she studied at the Bauhaus.
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Gertrud Arndt
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She is remembered for her pioneering series of self-portraits from around 1930. Born in Ratibor (then Upper Silesia) in September 1903, she started taking photographs and learning darkroom techniques while serving at an architectural office in Erfurt, documenting local buildings. She had hoped to study architecture there but as there was no course, she specialized in weaving.
Her most famous carpet - which has not survived - lay in the room of Walter Gropius from 1924 onwards.
Thereafter she returned to photography which she had learnt herself, developing her skills throughout her Bauhaus studies. In 1932, the couple moved to Probstzella in Thuringia, where they stayed until 1948.
They finally settled in Darmstadt, where Gertud Arndt died in July 2000. She received international acclaim in 1979 when her photographs were exhibited at Museum Folkwang.
In January 2013, the Bauhaus Museum of Design in Berlin presented an exhibition of Gertrud Arndt"s textiles and photographs.
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Germany