Georg Muche (1895 - 1987)

Georg Muche

Georg Muche was a German painter, graphic artist, designer and architect.

He began his studies in Munich at the School of Painting and Drawing, continuing in Berlin in 1915. Already influenced by Wassily Kandinsky and Max Ernst, he became one of the first proponents of abstract art in Germany. In Berlin, Georg Muche began collaborating with the expressionist painter Gerwart Walden (1879-1941) and his artist group Sturm.

In 1919 Walter Gropius appointed Muche to the Bauhaus in Weimar, where he became its youngest master. He also ran a weaving workshop in Dessau. In 1926, the Metal Prototype House on the Dessau-Törten estate was built to a design developed in collaboration with the architecture student Richard Paulik. From 1939 to 1958 Georg Muche worked in Krefeld, teaching a master class in textile design at the engineering school.