{"id":31403,"date":"2026-07-14T09:39:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=31403"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:09:31","slug":"grit-kallin-fischer","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/artist\/grit-kallin-fischer\/","title":{"rendered":"Grit Kallin-Fischer"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text toggle-optional-image show-optional-image' data-pattern='ho\/header-kunstler'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only padding-bottom-6'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-offset-1 col-md-7'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-3'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><div class=\"margin-bottom-3\">\n\t<swup-back>Back<\/swup-back>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-offset-1 col-md-7'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h2' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Grit Kallin-Fischer<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center col-md-offset-1 col-md-3'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<div class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-wrapper\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\" data-lane-item-count=\"3\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-fluid header-biography-list  cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1\">\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block wp-block-ho-grid row\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>Photographer, sculptress and paintress<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>born on 26 April 1896 in Frankfurt am Main<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>died on 17 July 1973 in Newton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-3 col-md-offset-5 ho-pattern-optional-image'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_enN14K\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 31751,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_grit-kallin-fischer-300x214.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":214,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":11128},\"large\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_grit-kallin-fischer-1024x732.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":732,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":99317},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_grit-kallin-fischer-768x549.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":549,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":60147},\"small\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_grit-kallin-fischer-440x314.jpg\",\"width\":440,\"height\":314,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":22019},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_grit-kallin-fischer-580x414.jpg\",\"width\":580,\"height\":414,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":36170},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_grit-kallin-fischer-720x514.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":514,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":53636},\"original\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_grit-kallin-fischer.jpg\",\"width\":1117,\"height\":798}},\n\"alt\" : \"Woman lying on the ground with folded arms, smoking a cigarette. 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She received her first art lessons, focusing on landscapes and still lifes, at a boarding school in Belgium. In 1910 she began studying painting in Marburg and then continued under Lovis Corinth at Leipzig\u2019s Academy for Graphic Art and Book Trade. She developed tuberculosis during the First World War and suffered from the after-effects for the rest of her life. In 1919 Kallin-Fischer went to Berlin, where she met the Russian musician Marik Kallin. The couple married in 1920, lived in London and separated after six years. In the autumn of 1927, Kallin-Fischer enrolled at the Bauhaus in Dessau. She began taking pictures there and developed portrait studies in the style of the New Vision. She also attended L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy\u2019s metal workshop and was involved with the Bauhaus stage, creating numerous portraits of its members. In late 1928, she went to Berlin with the American Bauhaus member Edward Fischer and continued to shoot photographs there. Several of her designs were published in the monthly graphic-design journal \u201cGebrauchsgraphik\u201d in 1930; one year later, her works were shown at the exhibition \u201cForeign Advertising Photography\u201d in New York. She married Edward Fischer in 1934 and emigrated to the US with him. Grit Kallin-Fischer gave up photography after 1945 and turned her attention to sculpture. She died in Newton, Pennsylvania, on 17 July 1973.<br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grit Kallin-Fischer was born as Margit Vries in Frankfurt am Main on 26 April 1897. 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