Lilly Reich
Lilly Reich (16 June 1885 – 14 December 1947) was a German designer of textiles, furniture, interiors, and exhibition spaces. She was a close collaborator with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for more than ten years during the Weimar period from 1925 until his emigration to the U.S. in 1938. Reich was an important figure in the early Modern Movement in architecture and design. Her fame was posthumous, as the significance of her contribution to the work of Mies van der Rohe and others with whom she collaborated with only became clear through the research of later historians of the field.[1]
Lilly Reich
14 December 1947 (aged 62)
Legacy[edit]
In 1996, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented an exhibition on her work "Lilly Reich: Designer and Architect"[16][17] which for the first time brought attention to this influential but almost forgotten designer.[18]
In 2018, the Mies van der Rohe Foundation in Spain presented the first edition of the Lilly Reich Grant for equality in architecture. The grant was specifically addressed to the study of the work by Lilly Reich herself, and to delving into the knowledge and dissemination of an essential figure in the history of modern architecture.[19][20]
There are streets named after Lilly Reich in the German cities of Munich, Hildesheim, and Ingolstadt, Rösrath, as well as the French city of Nantes.[21][22]