Modernity, for Sonia Delaunay, Anni Albers, and Benita Koch-Otte, was never a single breakthrough but a rhythm of repeats—motifs multiplied across fabric, print, and photograph. Each artist translated the Bauhaus promise of art-and-life unity into a personal language of pattern: Delaunay’s chromatic “simultanéités,” Albers’s woven grids reimagined in screen-print, and Koch-Otte’s lens-sharp studies of textile structure. Their works show modern vision unfolding through serial processes that democratize the avant-garde.
In bringing together Delaunay’s etchings, Albers’s intaglios and screenprints, and a rare photograph by Koch-Otte, Modern Women spotlights reproducibility as both method and manifesto. Printmaking and photography allowed these artists—working in media often dismissed as “craft”—to broadcast abstraction beyond the studio, subverting the masculine cult of the unique masterpiece and opening modernism to everyday encounter.
Viewed side by side, their images reveal a shared grammar of color bands, woven line, and optical vibration, formal echoes that testify to overlapping Bauhaus networks and to a collective ambition to re-pattern daily life. This viewing room invites you to see modernity through their multiplied impressions: bold, iterative, and unmistakably authored by women who reshaped the visual fabric of the twentieth century.
