German artist Ella Bergmann-Michel (1896–1971) experimented with collage and assemblage in the tumultuous era of the Weimar Republic, configuring her own compelling visual vocabulary. The results were evidenced in the show “De l’eau à la lumière, de Dada au Constructivisme” (From Water to Light, from Dada to Constructivism), which featured nearly thirty works made between 1920 and 1926. She and her husband, Robert Michel, met in 1917 while studying at the Grand-Ducal Saxon School for Fine Arts, Weimar, one of only two German art schools to accept women, and stayed on when it merged with the