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Provenance
Christie's, Amsterdam, 'The Estate of Kitty Fischer', 22 October 1996
Christie's, South Kensington, 'Modern Design', 12 November 1997, lot 17
Following studying at the Hornsea School of Art, London and the Institute of Decorative and Applied Art, The Hague, the Dutch textile artist Kitty van der Mijll Dekker enrolled at the Bauhaus, Dessau. At the Bauhaus, Kitty van der Mijll Dekker (later known as Kitty Fischer) completed the preliminary course under Josef Albers before joining the weaving workshop, where she studied under Gunta Stölzl. Having received her Bauhaus certificate in 1932, Kitty returned to The Netherlands where she opened her own weaving workshop. She exhibited her work internationally throughout the 1930s, winning medals at the Milan Triennale, Brussels International Exposition and San Francisco World's Fair, in addition to teaching from 1934-1970 at the Kunstnijverheidsschool Quellinus in Amsterdam.