Kitty van der Mijll Dekker

Catharine Louise "Kitty" van der Mijll Dekker (1908-2004) was a Dutch textile artist. She studied at the Bauhaus and her designs are still being produced.

Early life and education Mijll Dekker was born on 22 February 1908 in Yogyakarta Dutch East Indies. Around 1922 Mijll Dekker studied drawing at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague and from 1926 through 1927 she studied at Hornsey College of Art in London. From 1929-1932 she studied at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany. Gropius allowed both men and women into his art school, but relegated women to a workshop where they studied crafts, mainly weaving. Her teachers at the Bauhaus included Anni Albers, Otti Berger, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lilly Reich, Oskar Schlemmer, and Gunta Stölzl. Her work is in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Her 1935 design for a dish cloth is still being produced for the TextielMuseum in Tilburg.