Exhibitions

The Dessau textile designer Ursula Stroedicke lived and worked opposite the Georgengarten, just a few steps away from the Bauhaus – between the Bauhaus and the Garden Realm. Their credo was: “Textile is the second skin. Always! Textile is actually everything that is movable. You can do textile work – just like with stainless steel.”
Ursula Stroedicke was born in Rambin on Rügen in 1938. From 1956 to 1959 she studied fashion and fashion illustration in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Since 1982 she has worked as a freelance textile designer, first on Rügen and later in Dessau. In 1988 she became a member of the GDR Artists’ Association and in 1994 of the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Visual Artists. This is a greatly abbreviated sketch of the life of an artist who died in Dessau in July 2024.

Her works are present in several places in Dessau: in the Natural History Museum, in the Stadtsparkasse, in the clinic and in private collections. The cycle from the East Mark to the D-Mark to the Euro was created for the Stadtsparkasse. In the conference room of the Dessau Clinic there are three works on Beethoven’s triple concertos and five on the subject of medicine. Further works were created for the exhibition From Garden Realm to Bauhaus. She also showed textile interpretations of Goethe’s color theory. In the last year of her life, Ursula Stroedicke completed a series of light and playful textile pictures. Each one is provided with a Goethe poem. The works, interpreted on delicate silk, are reminiscent of Goethe as well as Paul Klee’s watercolors in their fine colors.