Trude Guermonprez (born Gertrud Emilie Jalowetz; 1910 –1976),[1] was a German-born American textile artist, designer and educator, known for her tapestry landscapes.

[3] Gertrud Emilie Jalowetz was born on 9 November 1910 in Danzig, German Empire (modern Gdańsk, Poland).

[3] We can assume that Trude Guermonprez was inspired by the revolutionary artistic surroundings of her parents, while working at Het Paapje designing different textiles.

[3] Paul Guermonprez was working as a graphic designer and founded his own advertising company Co-op 2, prior to getting drafted for the Dutch army.

In 1947, Guermonprez began teaching weaving and design at Black Mountain College while Anni Albers was away on sabbatical,[3] and to be with her mother Johanna Jalowetz and sister Lisa Aronson, who were also at the school.

[15] By 1960, she served as the Chair of the Crafts Department at CCA, overseeing: metal arts, ceramics, glass blowing, stitchery and textile printing, as well as supervising the weaving curriculum.

[15] Her students included Kay Sekimachi Stocksdale, Sheila O'Hara, Ann Wilson, and Jane Lackey, among others.

[16] Guermonprez combined the painterly possibilities of silkscreen with the structural geometry implicit in warp and weft to create fiber wall hangings that are both texturally rich and delicately drawn.

[18] Guermonprez was awarded the Craftsmanship Medal of the American Institute of Architects (1970) for her "distinguished creative design" in textiles and weaving.

Trude lived together with a companion women weaver at an easy walking distance from Het Paapje, along the Papenlaan (the Papistlane) in a typical picturesque, Dutch landscape; with meadows, straight ditches, cows and farmhouses.

For a feast, a musician with a huge accordion came from Leiden-city to play for the whole ‘Het Paapje population’; including the neighbouring friends farmers.

Trude exposes a rich variation of weaving techniques, forming basic figurative elements in a beautiful composition.

(see image B) In the beginning of her work at Het Paapje, Trude had taken the opportunity to express her roots in a little knitted carped of 132X95X1,5 cm.

(see image D) In this screenprint with the artichokes, vividly drawn, a very loose and crowded design has been formed, which seems to continue beyond the boundaries of the drawing: into the infinite space.

It is typical for Trude and it is strongly reminiscent of works by Mondriaan and Van der Leck; as if she had recently seen their paintings in Amsterdam.