Ella Bergmann-Michel

Ella Bergmann-Michel (1896-1971) is one of the most important and original artists of the German avant-garde of the 20th century. Fascinated by music and art, she decided as early as 1915 to study art at the “Grand Ducal Saxon University of Fine Arts”.  With her husband Robert Michel, she maintained a very close friendship with Kurt Schwitters and was also enrolled for a semester at the Bauhaus in Weimar. As early as the 1920s, she took part in numerous exhibitions in Germany and the USA with her artworks.
 
Like most well-known German artists of this era, Ella Bergmann also dealt with graphic design, typography, photography and film. Like her husband Robert Michel, Ella Bergmann-Michel has developed her personal style in a very short time and moves with her art in the areas of Dada, Constructivism and Purism. Due to the birth of her son, the greater financial security and almost certainly also because the Bauhaus was too formal in her eyes, she left Weimar after a short time and founded an independent studio with her husband near Frankfurt in the Taunus. Here she has the space to develop her ideas and to go her own way in art, photography and filmmaking.
 

During the Second World War, like her husband, Ella Bergmann-Michel was banned from working and classified as a degenerate artist. The entire early work of the two artists was produced within twenty years. Due to the rule of the National Socialists in Germany, the Michels stopped their artistic activities. In order to secure her livelihood, Ella Bergmann-Michel devoted herself to agriculture and small animal breeding.

After the war, she founded the “Film-Studio” in Frankfurt and gave lectures on the Blue Rider, Dadaism and the Bauhaus. In the 1960s she started again with making art. In addition to Japanese paper collages, a series of thread collage pictures are also created.

Galerie Eric Mouchet is pleased to exclusively represent the estate of the artist Ella Bergmann-Michel and her husband Robert Michel.

 
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// Biography
 
EXHIBITION :
 
// De l’eau à la lumière, de Dada au Constructivisme (05/07-06/18/22)