What the work is
Gunta Stölzl’s archive dates the Red/Green slit-tapestry wall hanging to 1927–28 and associates it with Bauhaus Dessau. This specific work gives the broad subject of her Bauhaus textiles a verifiable object and date.
How it was made
The record lists cotton, wool, silk and linen, with dimensions of 150 by 110 centimetres. It identifies the technique as slit tapestry and the provenance as the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin.
What works
The useful starting point is the textile as a made surface. Pattern is not simply transferred onto a neutral support: the choice and organization of threads belong to the composition itself.
What does not
The catalogue identifies materials but does not supply a complete workshop reconstruction. It cannot establish how every passage was executed, or justify treating all Stölzl’s Bauhaus fabrics as technically identical.
What it influenced
Its preservation in the Bauhaus-Archiv allows the work to be studied as part of the school’s material history. A named object is more informative here than a generic image used to stand for Bauhaus textiles as a whole.
Is it worth your time
Worth examining for the relation between composition and technique. Compare a full view with close detail, keeping the archive’s specific record separate from any broader claims about industrial textile production.
