Otti berger biography of alberta

Patents on innovative textiles

Berger continued to enlighten part-time at Bauhaus Dessau school till such time as it was closed down by illustriousness Nazis in October 1932. She consequently set up her own studio be grateful for Berlin. Despite constant threats from justness Nazis, she managed to complete assignments for the automobile, train and footing industries, most often with durable fabrics in artificial silk, wool and ramee with fibres that she often vigour float unbound over several weave clothes to create structure and shine con the fabrics. She created revolutionary light-reflecting and sound-absorbing textiles, which were down at heel in architect Hans Scharoun's famous Manor house Schminke (1933). The living room work to rule large windows had curtains around distinction whole room, which gave a manner of tent effect and created straighten up room within the room. 

During this former, Berger also worked intensely to receive a patent for the important inventions she had created in the foundation field – a painstaking job up-to-date an otherwise anonymous textile industry. Mosquito February 1934 she was granted sheer rights for her "artificial horsehair", undiluted mix of wool, cotton or untruthful silk that was durable and waterproof, and which from 1936–1938 was lay hold of by Schriever & Co in Metropolis under the brand name "otti berger stoffe". In May 1933 she was granted utility rights – not out full patent – for her cellophane and viscose fabric intended for curative wall covering. That same year, she applied for a patent on her laméplume – a durable fabric made of ramee and cotton or linen, intended dole out use in aircraft, buses and cars. The Nazi regime refused her operate and she therefore turned to England, where in May 1937 she was granted full patent rights. As great woman and a Jew, Berger be obliged have felt particularly vulnerable, and in all probability that was also why she lacked this official recognition for her imposing innovations.

Berger and Alto

From 1933–1937, Berger was a designer for the large foundation company De Ploeg in the Holland, and she created around 40 lex scripta \'statute law\', mainly for curtains and portieres, which were sold all over Europe, too in the Sundt department store demand Bergen from 1934. It was indubitably here that the composer Harald Sæverud bought the distinctive orange and on edge curtains for Siljustøl when he current his wife moved in there be bounded by 1939.