Jacqueline Groag 1959 (Picture credit score: John Garner/ College of Brighton Design Archives)
Czech-born Jacqueline Groag (1903-1985) used to be an influential textile fashion designer in Nice Britain following International Conflict II. She studied textile design all over the Twenties with Franz Cisek and Josef Hoffmann at Wiener Werkstätte, a workshop of implemented arts in Vienna. Groag produced and designed materials for main Parisian type properties together with Chanel, Lanvin, Area of Value, Schiaparelli and Paul Poiret, in addition to London textile properties David Whitehead, Grafton, John Lewis and Liberty.
Born as Hilde Select to Jewish folks on April 6, 1903, she later modified her title to Jacqueline Groag when she married modernist architect and inner fashion designer Jacques Groag in 1937. In 1938, Jacqueline and Jacques fled to Prague because of the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany after which to London following the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. As soon as in London, the design duo had been invited into the famed British Design Manufacturing facility, the place design greats of the Arts & Crafts and Modernist actions had been participants, equivalent to Sir Gordon Russell, Sir Charles Reilly and Jack Pritchard.
For over twenty years Groag labored as a contract fashion designer growing designs for carpets, greetings playing cards, laminates, plastics, textiles, wallpapers and wrapping paper. In 1984 she become a Fellow of the School of Royal Designers for Trade and is thought of as a central determine in textile design all over the Fifties, together with textile designers Lucienne Day and Marian Mahler.
Palm Springs Artwork Museum: Trend Play-The Recent Designs of Jacqueline Groag
In 2008, the Colorado Springs Superb Arts Middle introduced an exhibition entitled, Designing Girls: Artwork and the Trendy Inner from Postwar Britain, that includes the paintings of Jacqueline Groag, Lucienne Day and Marian Mahler.
And on Wednesday Might 11, 2022, in my newly followed place of origin of Palm Springs, California, I used to be invited to the hole of the Jacqueline Groag exhibition on the Palm Springs Artwork Museum. Dwelling in Palm Springs is past inspirational. No longer handiest is it a great spot to reside (although the summers do pass as much as 120 levels), it’s the house of one of the largest Mid-Century Trendy structure created through the likes of Richard Neutra, John Lautner, Albert Frey, A.Quincy Jones, Donald Wexler, Richard Harrison, E. Stewart Williams, William Krisel and William Cody. So consistent with this love of Modernism, I’d love to percentage some highlights from the Jacqueline Groag display:
Jacqueline Groag 1946 Published nylon get dressed manufactured through Fabricado for F.W. Grafton & Co. Manchester, England
Jacqueline Grog designed quite a lot of get dressed materials for F.W. Grafton all over the Nineteen Forties. Certainly one of Groag’s Grafton patterns, a vintage tulip motif, used to be selected through the British type couturier Edward Molyneux for a get dressed he designed for HRH Princess Elizabeth. The photograph underneath presentations the longer term queen dressed in the tulip print get dressed in September 1946.
Jacqueline Groag’s ‘Tulip Print’ get dressed worn through HRH Princess Elizabeth 1946
Jacqueline Groag ‘Toy Parade’ get dressed print on cotton 1955 -Manufactured through Fabricado for Related American Artists
Jacqueline Groag- Furnishing cloth roller-printed spun rayon Haworth Materials England
Jacqueline Groag’s ‘Puppet Ballet’ get dressed cloth 1953 – revealed cotton manufactured through Fabricado for Related American Artists
Jacqueline Groag textile revealed attire 1953
Jacqueline Groag’s ‘First Evening’ get dressed print 1947 – manufactured through Fabricado for Related American Artists, New York
Jacqueline Groag firstly conceived her “First Evening’ get dressed print in 1938 for Elsa Schiaparelli, who, along with Coco Chanel, ruled type between the 2 International Wars. First Evening used to be according to Groag’s drawing of the target audience all over opening night time on the Paris Opera. The material used to be bought in america underneath the title Gala Evening.
For Extra Data at the Groags & the Viennese Trendy Motion
Learn extra about Jacques and Jacqueline Groag and the Viennese Modernist motion: Groag: Architect and Clothier
For extra on Groag’s textile designs learn: Jacqueline Groag: Textile & Trend Design: Wiener Werkstatte to American Trendy
To be told extra about Lucienne Day learn – Lucienne Day: Within the Spirit of the Age
Be certain that to try UoF’s textile design classes:
Creation To Textile Print Design
Researching & Designing A Graphic Published Textile
