{"id":31627,"date":"2026-07-14T09:39:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=31627"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:00:25","slug":"mili-thompson","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/artist\/mili-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mili Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text' 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;\">Mili Thompson<\/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, graphic designer and art magazine editor<\/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 16 August 1923 in Dempseytown<\/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 10 April 2015 in Chicago<\/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\" : 29122,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"image-1-240x300.png\",\"width\":240,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":976},\"small\":{\"file\":\"image-1-352x440.png\",\"width\":352,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":1598},\"original\":{\"file\":\"image-1.png\",\"width\":454,\"height\":568}},\n\"alt\" : \"A solid background in a warm shade of yellow.\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : {\"x\":0.5,\"y\":0.5},\n\"background\" : true,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:120%;   \">\n\t<div class=\"height-container-contents lazy-media-contents\">\n\t\n\t<div class=\"lazy-media-preview\" style=\"background-image: url('data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABgAAAAdCAYAAACwuqxLAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAALElEQVRIx2N89mTWfwYaAiZaGj5qwagFoxaMWjBqwagFoxaMWjBqwagFJAAAej8DnYOBqGMAAAAASUVORK5CYII='); background-position: 50% 50%; height: 100%; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t<lazy-media-inline inline-template>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<lazy-media :inline=\"true\" :alt=\"alt\" :sizes=\"sizes\" :scale=\"scale\" :zoom=\"zoom\" :brightness=\"brightness\" :path=\"path\" :video=\"video\" :autoplay=\"autoplay\" :youtube=\"youtube\" :crop=\"crop\" :youtubelabel=\"youtubelabel\" :annotations=\"annotations\" :background=\"background\" v-if=\"sizes\"><\/lazy-media>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/lazy-media-inline>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5  ho-pattern-optional-image'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\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-4'><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-2'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>Mili Thompson was born as Mildred E. Thompson in Dempseytown, Pennsylvania, on 16 August 1923. In 1945 she began studying at Chicago\u2019s Institute of Design, the former New Bauhaus. Her teachers included the artist and designer Richard Filipowski as well as the graphic designer and illustrator Harold Walter. She also met the photographer Art Sinsabaugh there, her fellow student and future husband, who would go on to teach at the Institute of Design himself. In class, she created material studies for which she worked with different textures and shadows before photographing them. Thompson completed her degree in visual design in 1949. As an artist, she later worked in a variety of roles: She decorated display windows, was a graphic designer and the editor of an art magazine. In 2010 she was among former students who founded the Bauhaus Chicago Committee (later known as the Bauhaus Chicago Foundation), an institution that collects and preserves the activities as well as works of students at the school. 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