Main entry:

Un/seen. English

Title & Author:

Un/seen : women in graphic design up to the Bauhaus / edited by Petra Eisele and Isabel Naegele ; translation, Anthony B. Heric and Steven Lindberg.

Edition:

1st edition.

Publication:

Karlsruhe : Slanted, 2026.
©2026

Description:

421 pages (1 folded) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Un/seen : Frauen im Grafikdesign bis zum Bauhaus.
Translator information from colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-418).
01. Current issues & research. New narratives / Petra Eisele ; *in_ventory / Julia Meer, Bettina Richter, Christina Thomson ; State of research / Gerda Breuer -- 02. Era & discourses : applied graphic and decorative arts around 1900. The feminization of the applied arts / Gerda Breuer ; Women designers and the Women's Movement(s) / Gerda Breuer -- Timeline 1865-1919, national and international connections -- 03. Beginnings & education : classes apart - women's education at schools of applied arts. Berlin : graphic design at the Lette-Verein / Jana Hasse ; Berlin : Unterrichtsanstalt des Preussischen Kunst-gewerbemuseums / Antje Kalcher ; Munich's art-educational landscape 1871-1918 / Sabine Wieber ; Weimar : Kuntsgewerbliches Seminar and the Grossherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschule / Antje Naumann ; Karlsruhe : freelance women artists as commercial graphic artists / Brigitte Baumstark ; Leipzig : artistic courses for women at the Akademie für graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe / Julia Blume ; Dresden : the Women's Department of the Kunstgewerbeschule / Kerstin Stöver, Ute Thomas ; Hamburg : women at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule / Julia Meer -- 04. Books & crafts : the Book Art Movement - women as book designers. Lina Burger : illustration and book decoration / Aliena Guggenberger ; Women only : the "Ladies' Issue" of the journal "Jugend" / Aliena Guggenberger ; Charlotte Anger & Margarethe Bartsch : pioneers in Leipzig / Julia Blume ; The applied arts studio of Martha von Kranz and Laura Lange (Munich) / Aliena Guggenberger ; Maria Lühr and the Commission for the Œuvres de Frédéric le Grand : a case study / Julia Neller, Aliena Guggenberger ; Decorated papers : facets of female surface art / Julia Rinck ; Decorated paper techniques / Julia Rinck -- 05.Typography & politics - type is political. The lettering and typography movement around the turn of the century / Isabel Naegele ; Anna Simons : pioneer, teacher, and international mediator / Petra Eisele, Isabel Naegele ; Between tradition and renewal : Anna Simons as calligrapher and typographer / Isabel Naegele, Petra Eisele ; "Dem Deutschen Volke" / Isabel Naegele, Petra Eisele ; Typography and gender : early women in type design / Isabel Naegele, Guggenberger -- 06. Production & labor : gender and class - anonymous women in the printing industry. "Without work, no livelihood" / Ute Thomas ; "Women workers! Go forth and fight!" / Petra Eisele -- 07. Brands & advertising : advertising women. Women as experts in commodities / Friederike Berger ; Else Oppler and the profession of decorator / Aliena Guggenberger ; Brand aware : the advertising designer Dore Mönkemeyer-Corty / Petra Eisele ; Bahlsen : the Hannover Cake Factory and its women graphic artists / Gerda Breuer ; Appel and Änne Koken / Gerda Breuer ; Collectible pictures for the Stollwerck Chocolate Company / Gerda Breuer ; The female artists of the Steglitzer Werkstatt / Petra Eisele ; A feminine pelikan / Petra Eisele ; Women poster designers at Hollerbaum & Schmidt / Petra Eisele -- 08. Presentation & initiative : out of competition - exhibitions by women. Women advertising artists in the Deutsches Museum für Kunst in Handel und Gewerbe / Gerda Breuer ; The exhibition "Die Frau in Haus und Beruf" / Gerda Breuer ; Strict objectivity : posters and advertising stamps for the "Haus der Frau" at the Werkbund Exhibition / Petra Eisele ; Female idiosyncrasies : The "Haus der Frau" at the Bugra / Petra Eisele -- 09. War & upheaval : women designers in World War I ; Ella Margold : design for Bahlsen / Petra Eisele ; "In the Service of the Revolution!" : political graphic art by women / Petra Eisele -- 10. Visions & outlooks : after 1919 - dreams of the future and realities. Aspiring women typographers between exile and persecution / Isabel Naegele ; Modern advertising by women? / Petra Eisele ; At the Bauhaus : women book designers and commercial graphic artists / Petra Eisele -- Bowing to the rules of advertising / Petra Eisele -- Short biographies.

Summary:

"Why do so many women graphic designers remain invisible? How is the present connected to its past? In seeking answers to these questions, UN/SEEN turns to the very beginnings of graphic design in Germany and examines the period leading up to the Bauhaus. Drawing on numerous previously unknown examples spanning the fields of book design, poster design, typography, illustration, and packaging, UN/SEEN reveals just how successful and self-assured this first generation of women graphic designers was. UN/SEEN also makes the anonymous work of women in the applied arts and the printing industries visible for the first time. In doing so, UN/SEEN challenges long-established narratives of design history and foregrounds new role models within the ongoing discussion of design, gender, and class"--Back cover.

Resources:
Project website

ISBN:

9783692020020 English edition hardbound
3692020023

Subject:

Women graphic artists Germany.
Women designers Germany.
Women commercial artists Germany.
Women typographers Germany.
Book designers Germany.
Graphic arts Germany History 19th century.
Graphic arts Germany History 20th century.
Graphic design (Typography) Germany History 19th century.
Graphic design (Typography) Germany History 20th century.
Commercial art Germany History 19th century.
Commercial art Germany History 20th century.
Arts graphiques Allemagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Arts graphiques Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Femmes designers Allemagne.
Dessinatrices publicitaires Allemagne.
Art publicitaire Allemagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Art publicitaire Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Book designers
Commercial art
Graphic arts
Graphic design (Typography)
Women commercial artists
Women designers
Women graphic artists
Women typographers
Germany

Form/genre:

Art criticism
Biographies
History
Critiques d'art.

Added entries:

Eisele, Petra, 1966- editor of compilation.
Naegele, Isabel, editor of compilation.
Heric, Anthony B., translator.
Lindberg, Steven, translator.
Un/seen: Frauen im Grafikdesign bis zum Bauhaus.

Women in graphic design up to the Bauhaus

Holdings:

Location: Library study room new acquisitions 327528
Call No.: 327528
Copy: 1
Status: Available