Text: SOPHIA SCHMIDTS If you search for a picture of Dörte Helm, you will find a sea of actresses faces, but not Dörte Helm herself.
The artist from Rostock was a versatile talent. She worked as a graphic artist, painted city skylines and landscapes and played a major role in the interior design of the »Haus Sommerfeld« at the Weimar Bauhaus. Nevertheless, she was demoted not just once, but twice to lover status by German television during the Bauhaus 100th anniversary. First as an adulteress to a fictitious couple and then as the affair of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius. A fact SISTER-MAG.COM
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