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Hearing Pictures – Students’ Descriptions of Images in the Exhibition “New Woman, New Vision. Women Photographers of the Bauhaus”

Seven students attending the advanced art class at Berlin’s Nelson Mandela School during the 2025/26 school year describe 14 works from the exhibition “New Woman, New Vision. Women Photographers of the Bauhaus”. In these recordings, they share their personal perspectives on the photographs. You can use the QR codes in the exhibition to access the English and German audio material on your own smartphone.

Sovany Love describes:
Grit Kallin-Fischer, Self-portrait with cigarette, around 1928, Vintage Print, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

Boramey Smith describes:
Lucia Moholy, Self-portrait, 1930, Modern Print, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Jannah von Holtz describes:
Florence Henri, Mirror self-portrait, 1928, Modern Print, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © Galleria Martini & Ronchetti, courtesy Archives Florence Henri

Mia Talai-Rad describes:
Lucia Moholy, Roma woman from Skopje, Yugoslavia, with wedding jewellery, 1932, Modern Print, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Sovany Love describes:
Ellen Auerbach, Sleeping woman, 1930, Modern Print, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Jannah von Holtz describes:
Florence Henri, Composition II, 1928, Vintage Print, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © Galleria Martini & Ronchetti, courtesy Archives Florence Henri

Tianirina Rafanomezantsoa-Rajemison describes:
Elsa Thiemann, Ancient theatre mask with shadow of a hand, 1930s, Vintage Print, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © Margot Schmidt

Tianirina Rafanomezantsoa-Rajemison describes:
Else Tholstrup, Passersby in Chicago, student work at the Institute of Design, Chicago, assignment: reflections, 1950s, Vintage Print, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © Estate of Else Tholstrup

Käthe Gadow describes:
Lucia Moholy, Portrait of László Moholy-Nagy, Dessau, 1926, Modern Print, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Livia Lösch describes:
Etel Mittag-Fodor, The kiss, 1929–1930, Vintage Print, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

Livia Lösch describes:
Ellen Auerbach, Mother’s corset, 1930, Copy Print, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Boramey Smith describes:
Lucia Moholy, Clara Zetkin’s hands, around 1930, Modern Print, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Mia Talai-Rad describes:
Marianne Brandt, Self-portraits in the studio at the Bauhaus Dessau, reflected in spheres, 1928–1929, Modern Print, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Käthe Gadow describes:
Ivana Meller-Tomljenovic, Two Bauhaus students as a dancing couple, 1930, Modern Print, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © Marinko Sudac