Benita Koch-Otte (Stuttgart, Germany, 1892 – Bielefeld, Germany, 1976) is increasingly recognized alongside Anni Albers and Gunta Stölzl as one of the most accomplished weavers to emerge from the Bauhaus, a designer whose command of geometry and color theory blurred the line between craft and fine art.

Koch-Otte first trained and worked as a teacher of drawing, physical education, and handicrafts before enrolling at the Weimar Bauhaus in 1920, at twenty-eight, much to her chemist father's disapproval. There she became a close friend and collaborator of Gunta Stölzl, and came under the direct influence of Paul Klee, whose ideas about form and color she carried into compositions built from narrow, precisely counted bands of contrasting color, rhythmic sequences closer to musical notation than to conventional pattern. In 1923, she designed the kitchen for the Haus am Horn, the model house built to showcase Bauhaus principles at the school's landmark exhibition that year, a design credited by some historians as an influence on Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's 1926 Frankfurt Kitchen. When the Bauhaus relocated to Dessau in 1925, Koch-Otte chose not to follow, unwilling to see her craft absorbed into industrial production; she instead took over the weaving department at the City of Halle's School of Applied Arts at Burg Giebichenstein, teaching there until the Nazi regime forced her dismissal in 1933.