#art, Alma Buscher in the Women Artists Series 2025

Alma Buscher was a German designer who studied and trained at the Bauhaus… She was born in Kreutzal, Germany in 1899… In 1922 she began her studies at the Bauhaus of Weimar taking Johannes Itten’s preliminary class and later classes offered by Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. She was accepted to the textile workshop directed by Georg Muche, but later, in 1923 she changed to wood sculpture under the direction of Josef Hartwig. That same year she exhibited her furniture designs at the first Bauhaus exhibition. Her items were children’s furniture, theatrical puppets and marionettes and other toys.

Alma Buscher died died during a bombing raid (WWII) in Buchschlag, close to Frankfurt on the 25th of September of 1944. Short life, not enough work done but I think she showed a tremendous potential and who knows how far she could have reached had she survived the Second World War.