Un 'Bauhaus lombardo': le trame astratte di Gegia e Marisa Bronzini

the contribution of the bronzini workshop’s textile activity is varied, distinct and at the same time intertwined between a production for design and one for art. From Gegia bronzini’s early experiments in high craft weaving in the 1930s to the Fiber Art of her daughter Marisa, the article reconstructs and investigates the activity and artistic research of two women who distinguished themselves both as innovative entrepreneurs and as experimental creatives. through consultation of the family archives, testimonies and bibliographical documents, it traces the origins of their first textile workshop and its evolution in relation to the main art and design exhibitions, highlighting their contribution to textile processing, but also to abstraction research in the field of textiles. Abstraction, in fact, is the stylistic choice that distinguished them both in the creation of textiles in their workshop and in the realisation of textile artworks. In analysing the contribution of weaving to abstract research, both sides of their activity, which has its roots in the historical abstraction research of the 1930s, were explored.