Born Adelgunde Stölzl in Munich, Gunta Stölzl is one of the most famous textile designers and teachers at the bauhaus. This is for two reasons, first she studied at the bauhaus in Weimar showing (and selling) her final project at the Haus Horn exhibition. She is also the only woman teacher and one of the so called young masters to be promoted to full professor while teaching in Dessau. Stölzl ran the weaving workshop, which became the place where female students were sent, in the less emancipated atmosphere of Bauhaus Dessau. She managed to maintain her status despite infighting with other faculty members (such as Kandinsky and Peterhans)


She married twice Arieh Sharon and Willy Stadler (hence she can also be found as Gunta Stölzl-Sharon and as Gunta Stölzl-Stadler), and spent the end of her life working as a textile artist in Switzerland.