{"id":11548,"date":"2025-05-09T18:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/forschen\/provenienzforschung\/fall-4-das-erbe-otti-bergers-im-bauhaus-archiv-museum-fuer-gestaltung\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:28:16","slug":"otti-bergers-legacy-in-the-bauhaus-archiv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/research\/provenance\/otti-bergers-legacy-in-the-bauhaus-archiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Otti Berger\u2019s legacy in the Bauhaus-Archiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text toggle-optional-copy' data-pattern='ho\/header-mittlere-headline-option-text'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only padding-bottom-6'>\n\n<div  class='margin-top-5 margin-bottom-5'>\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'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><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-10 margin-top-3'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h2' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Otti Berger\u2019s legacy in the Bauhaus-Archiv<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-text'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-md-offset-6 margin-top-7 col-xs-offset-2 col-xs-10'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>Nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. 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When Berger left her home in London for the Yugoslavian province of Baranya in 1938 to care for her mother, who was suffering from cancer, she stored a large portion of her possessions in London. She transferred responsibility for these to her friends Karl (1889\u20131963) and Ellen Otten (1909\u20131999), who, like Berger, had fled to England to escape persecution by the Nazis. In 1938 Berger also loaned a selection of works to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York for the Bauhaus exhibition there. 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