Benita Otte was born in Stuttgart, Germany.
After attending Lyceum in Krefeld, Otte taught drawing and physical education in Uerdingen. In 1920, she enrolled at the Bauhaus in Weimar where she studied in the studio's weaving workshop. She was later employed in the workshop, working closely with Gunta Stölzl. Otte left the Bauhaus in 1925.
Although she worked primarily as a weaver, Otte, on a number of occasions, produced work beyond the medium. Notable among this work is Otte's design for the kitchen of the 1923 Haus am Horn in Weimar, which inspired Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's 1926 Frankfurt kitchen.
After leaving the Bauhaus, Otte served as head of the weaving workshop at the Kunstgewerbeschule Burg Giebichenstein, a vocational arts college in Halle, now the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design. In 1929 she reunited with the Czech photographer Heinrich Koch [de] who studied with Otte at the Bauhaus; Benita married Koch later that year.
A number of former students and teachers from the Bauhaus went to work at the school, including: Gerhard Marcks, the Rector from 1928 until 1933; Hans Wittwer, who ran the Architecture department; Marguerite Friedländer and Erich Consemüller. Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, Koch-Otte and other staff considered avant-garde were dismissed from the school.
• Former students of Benita Koch-Otte include Trude Guermonprez, among others.
• Benita Koch-Otte Street (Benita-Otte-Straße) in Erfurt, Germany is named after her.
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| Tapestry, circa 1920-25 |
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La lune, la lune, comme les vagues, se refroidit comme les vagues
creusent dans les crinières sombres de la nuit, circa 1920-25 |
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| Project for a rug, circa 1922 |
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| Wall hanging, circa 1922-24 |
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| Carpet for a children's room, circa 1923 |
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| Rug of knotted wool, circa 1923 |
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| Woven Wall Hanging, circa 1923-24 |
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| Arazzo Bauhaus in Lana, circa 1924 |
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| Textilentwurf (Textile design), circa 1924 |
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| Water Lily, circa 1930 |
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| Project for a wall hanging |
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