Léna Bergner: From the Bauhaus to Mexico

Abstract

Léna Bergner was a textile designer trained at the Bauhaus. She worked in Moscow and was the technical design director for the Dekorativtkan factory. In 1939 she traveled to Mexico where she worked for ten years with her husband, architect Hannes Meyer, and collaborated with the Taller de Gráfica Popular, tgp (Popular Graphics Workshop) and the Comité Administrador del Programa Federal de Construcción de Escuelas, capfce (Administrative Committee of the Federal Schools Construction Program). This paper aims to present and value the designer’s material and intellectual work which has not been properly addressed in the history of architecture and design.