{"id":21733,"date":"2024-08-07T14:27:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T12:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/entdecken\/artikel\/wenn-man-zuhoert-kann-man-immer-noch-otti-bergers-tastsinn-spueren\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:06:12","slug":"we-can-still-feel-otti-bergers-sense-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"magazine-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/article\/we-can-still-feel-otti-bergers-sense-of-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe can still feel Otti Berger\u2019s sense of touch\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text' data-pattern='ho\/header-magazin'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6'>\n\n<div  class='header-magazine-contents'>\n\n<div  class='cf-rem-max-width container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'><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\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">\u201cWe can still feel Otti Berger\u2019s sense of touch\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6'><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline  lazy-background-fill\" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_vwnktv\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 668,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"12434-244_Portaet-Otti-Berger_Foto_Lucia-Moholy_um-1927-1928_c_VG-Bild-Kunst-Bonn-217x300.jpg\",\"width\":217,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":10908},\"large\":{\"file\":\"12434-244_Portaet-Otti-Berger_Foto_Lucia-Moholy_um-1927-1928_c_VG-Bild-Kunst-Bonn-740x1024.jpg\",\"width\":740,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":66789},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"12434-244_Portaet-Otti-Berger_Foto_Lucia-Moholy_um-1927-1928_c_VG-Bild-Kunst-Bonn-768x1063.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":1063,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":70511},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"12434-244_Portaet-Otti-Berger_Foto_Lucia-Moholy_um-1927-1928_c_VG-Bild-Kunst-Bonn-1110x1536.jpg\",\"width\":1110,\"height\":1536,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":145422},\"2048x2048\":{\"file\":\"12434-244_Portaet-Otti-Berger_Foto_Lucia-Moholy_um-1927-1928_c_VG-Bild-Kunst-Bonn-1480x2048.jpg\",\"width\":1480,\"height\":2048,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":265389},\"small\":{\"file\":\"12434-244_Portaet-Otti-Berger_Foto_Lucia-Moholy_um-1927-1928_c_VG-Bild-Kunst-Bonn-318x440.jpg\",\"width\":318,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":18475},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"12434-244_Portaet-Otti-Berger_Foto_Lucia-Moholy_um-1927-1928_c_VG-Bild-Kunst-Bonn-419x580.jpg\",\"width\":419,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":27193},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"12434-244_Portaet-Otti-Berger_Foto_Lucia-Moholy_um-1927-1928_c_VG-Bild-Kunst-Bonn-520x720.jpg\",\"width\":520,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":37059},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"12434-244_Portaet-Otti-Berger_Foto_Lucia-Moholy_um-1927-1928_c_VG-Bild-Kunst-Bonn-925x1280.jpg\",\"width\":925,\"height\":1280,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":100524},\"full\":{\"file\":\"12434-244_Portaet-Otti-Berger_Foto_Lucia-Moholy_um-1927-1928_c_VG-Bild-Kunst-Bonn-1388x1920.jpg\",\"width\":1388,\"height\":1920,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":231256},\"xxl\":{\"file\":\"12434-244_Portaet-Otti-Berger_Foto_Lucia-Moholy_um-1927-1928_c_VG-Bild-Kunst-Bonn-2926x4048.jpg\",\"width\":2926,\"height\":4048,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":1027490},\"original\":{\"file\":\"12434-244_Portaet-Otti-Berger_Foto_Lucia-Moholy_um-1927-1928_c_VG-Bild-Kunst-Bonn.jpg\",\"width\":2988,\"height\":4134}},\n\"alt\" : \"Black-and-white portrait of a smiling woman holding a lattice frame. 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The artistic research project on Bauhaus graduate and textile designer Otti Berger was complex and intensive and could be realised thanks to this kind of support. The Low-Beer family formed the Arks Foundation in 2019 to consolidate the textile factory owned by their grandfather Walter Low-Beer. Daniel Low-Beer talks with curator Nina Wiedemeyer about his connections to the Bauhaus, European history and the sensuality of textiles. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h5' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\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\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'><strong>What interests you about the textile designer Otti Berger?<br><\/strong><br>My grandfather, Walter Low-Beer, would touch a fabric like you sip a glass of wine with your lips. His fingers told him where the materials were from and how they were put together. My grandfather would say we need to regain our sense of touch in the materials that surround us.<br><br>Otti Berger, for me, has the most sophisticated sense of touch of the 20th century. She has shaped my sense of touch. She weaves textiles with the touch of snow, as she writes: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/text-zitat'>\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-md-6 col-md-offset-3 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure class='wp-block-ho-quote '>\n\t\t\t<blockquote>    \u201c... we can weave a white fabric, with the glitter and shimmer of snow, the hard shine of porcelain and a soft transparency of a blossoming flower.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption>(Otti Berger, Stoffe im Raum, 1930)<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h5' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\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\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>Otti Berger realised how rich touch is as a sense, the umami of senses, used to awaken artist sensibility at the bauhaus.<br><br>There are layers to her sense of touch. The first layer is the feeling of material and structure with the hands. Otti writes \u201cFabric can be understood with the hands as much as colour to the eye or sound in the ear\u201d. She was taught by Paul Klee who explained that touch reveals the \u201ctraces of discrete movements of the hand \u2026 like footprints in the snow\u201d.<br><br>The second layer is visual touch. Otti Berger was also taught by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy and influenced by the visual and tactile challenge of photography. The visual world is not virtual and flat like you feel after a call on zoom, but depends on the fall of light on the texture of materials. This is what gives the depth of colour or the luminescence of snow.<br><br>The third layer is unconscious touch which she describes in \u201cStoffe in Raum\u201d, influenced by Freud. She writes \u201cWe must grasp the structure not with our minds alone, but feel it out with our subconscious\u201d. Objects touch you unconsciously, and textiles give a sense of warmth to modernism as in the Tugendhat Villa, they can turn a house into a home.<br><br>There are two separate circuits of touch in your brain, the emotional and the physical, connected to 5000 varied sensers in each cm of skin for heat, cold, pain and social touch.<br><br>Finally, Otti Berger recognised movement, the dancing textiles she brought with her to the Bauhaus from her home in Central Europe, and the zebra fabric which literally allows a horse to disappear in movement. \u201cThrough material we can weave immateriality\u201d, \u201cwe want to achieve the dissolution of material!\u201d A textile \u201ccan be music in itself\u201d. 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The line, agreed at the Munich Conference, ran along the stream through the Low-Beer factory, that would later become Schindler\u2019s Ark. Walter stood face to face with a battalion of Nazi soldiers on the other side of the bridge. They fanned out along the other side of the stream. Walter held up a map agreed by Hitler and the British Prime Minister Chamberlain. He stood his ground, a Jew defending the borders of a broken Czechoslovakia. He told them to check their orders and borders, which they did. That is how Walter Low-Beer held up the Nazi invasion for three days.<br>I often wonder from where my grandfather got the force to stand his ground. I think he was defending a European identity in the very centre of Europe. He refused to split into pieces a Czech, a Jewish, an Austrian, a German part. <br><br>Our family factory was stolen by the Nazis and by Oskar Schindler who was a Nazi. Oskar and Emilie Schindler later built a concentration camp that was managed by Schindler and where 1.200 Jews on Schindler\u2019s List were saved, as shown in the film by Stephen Spielberg. The factory is still standing, with the beautiful and haunting historical buildings and gate as they were in 1945.<br>In 2017 our family was officially invited back to spend a weekend in the Tugendhat Villa. The Brno authorities expected a few survivors, but almost one hundred arrived from Canada, Brazil, England, Australia, France, Great Britain, Switzerland, none had survived in Czechoslovakia. <br><br>In 2019\/2020 we bought back and consolidated the land of our factory which had gone bankrupt. We won a modest EU grant \u201cMaking a Museum\u201d to work with students from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Poland and Slovakia to co-design a Museum of Survivors for the next generation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/text-zitat'>\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-md-6 col-md-offset-3 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure class='wp-block-ho-quote '>\n\t\t\t<blockquote>\u201cCan an individual stand up to a killing system and to discrimination, how do survivors shape our world?\u201c<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption>Daniel Low-Beer<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h5' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\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\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>The Museum of Survivors will open in Schindler\u2019s Ark in May 2025 to mark 80 years since the end of World War II. It will show the testimonies, life and art of survivors, in the place where the events occurred, based on the 110,000 hours of testimonies collected by the Shoah Foundation. Can an individual stand up to a killing system and to discrimination, how do survivors shape our world? It is a place of light dedicated to survivors, who should not feel guilt. They save my and our world. We still need support to save <a href=\"https:\/\/arksfoundation.net\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/arksfoundation.net\/\">Schindler\u2019s Ark<\/a>.<br><br><strong>Your Family is related to a famous builiding by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich in Brno. What connections do you have to the Bauhaus? Tell us about your first exhibition \u201cStarting at Zero\u201d.<\/strong><br><br>A branch of our family commissioned the Tugendhat Villa in Brno, built by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, the Bauhaus directors of architecture and textiles. The home was a wedding present for Greta Tugendhat (born Low-Beer) from her parents Alfred and Marianne Low-Beer. The Tugendhat Home was built by German architects with Czech artisans for a modern Jewish family way of life. They lived there for only eight years until 1938.<br><br>In June 2024 we open our first exhibition \u201cStarting at Zero\u201d in the Tugendhat Villa, showing the work of Otti Berger, Anni Albers, Lilly Reich and Lucie Rie. How did these artists start from zero? How did survivors shape our world so fully in art, textiles, ceramics and architecture? Was art, beauty and the joy of making their response to war? Was starting at zero a creative force?<br><br>Their art and lives illustrate the role of survivors who shape our world, and the words on the ring given to Schindler in our factory in 1945 that \u201cWhoever saves one life, saves the world entire\u201d. <br><br>We are reweaving the Lilly Reich carpet commissioned from Alen Muller Hellwig for the Tugendhat Villa. Lilly Reich was perhaps the most architectural with textiles \u2013 taught by Josef Hoffman as early as 1910 and working as an equal with Mies van der Rohe for a decade. Lilly Reich brought the \u201ccourage for colour\u201d, materiality, impeccable taste, and an interior warmth to modernism with her use of textiles.<br><br>We show the pots of Lucie Rie, the closest to modern decorative objects without ornament. She was taught by the Moravians Adolf Loos and Josef Hoffmann. She fled Austria in 1938 and was only allowed to make buttons when she arrived in Britain. It took her a further 25 years to start from zero and shape 20th-century ceramics for a second time.<br><br>We will build the textiles of Otti Berger and Anni Albers into the materiality of the museum, the textile dividers and walls for hanging works. Anni Albers survived and shaped modern textiles, Otti Berger was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. Otti Berger is a particular challenge, we believe through the new book and exhibitions, her legacy can still survive to shape our world.<br><br>Whenever I touch a fabric, I feel my grandfather and the touch of Otti Berger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/medien-bild'>\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-md-6 col-xs-10 col-xs-offset-1 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_3gzU3J\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 676,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"Portraet-Daniel-Low-Beer_c_Bjoen-Steinz-300x189.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":189,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":16171},\"small\":{\"file\":\"Portraet-Daniel-Low-Beer_c_Bjoen-Steinz-440x277.jpg\",\"width\":440,\"height\":277,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":28466},\"original\":{\"file\":\"Portraet-Daniel-Low-Beer_c_Bjoen-Steinz.jpg\",\"width\":509,\"height\":321}},\n\"alt\" : \"Man in a suit stands in an abandoned industrial setting filled with trash and pipes, black-and-white photo.\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/04\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : null,\n\"background\" : false,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:63.064833005894%; 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In 2019\u20132020 he bought back the ruined factory to create a Museum of Survivors to open in May 2025. Previously, he helped establish the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria over a decade. He now works at the World Health Organization. He worked for Roland Berger &amp; Partners and in South Africa on HIV prevention. He received a first-class degree from Oxford University and his PhD on the epidemiology of HIV at Cambridge University. He wrote the book Arks: the Low-Beer story behind Schindler\u2019s List and Villa Tugendhat. 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