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Adams-Teltscher, George  

Austrian, 20th century, male.

Active in England.

Born 1904, in Purkersdorf (Vienna).

Painter, draughtsman, decorative designer.

George Adams-Teltscher studied at the school of decorative arts in Vienna and then at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1921 to 1923. Probably influenced by Oskar Schlemmer, he became a theatre decorator in Vienna in ...

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Allner, Heinz  

German, 20th century, male.

Active in America.

Born 1909, in Dessau.

Painter.

Heinz Allner trained at the Bauhaus between 1927 and 1930, notably under Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. He settled for a time in Paris in 1933, where he worked in graphic art and typography, disciplines he had acquired at the Bauhaus. He remained in Paris until ...

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Ardon, Mordecaï  

Israeli, 20th century, male.

Born 1896, in Tuchow, Poland; died 18 June 1992.

Painter.

After receiving a classical grounding in the arts, Mordecai Ardon left Poland and studied at the Bauhaus from 1920 to 1925, working under the direction of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. He went on to study at the Kunstakademie in Munich. He then taught at the art school opened in Berlin by Johannes Itten. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Ardon sought refuge in Palestine where, in 1935, he was appointed to a teaching post at the Bezalel college of art in Jerusalem (of which he was to become the principal in 1940) and served as an adviser on the arts to the ministry of education and culture. As such, he played a determining role in the training of young Israeli artists....

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Arndt, Alfred  

German, 20th century, male.

Born 1898, in Elbing (now Elblag, Poland).

Painter, architect.

Alfred Arndt was mainly active at the Bauhaus, where he studied architecture and mural painting before becoming a teacher of interior design in 1929. He lost his construction rights in 1933 during the Third Reich, but was later appointed architect of public works in Jena in ...

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Bagel, Moses  

Lithuanian, 20th century, male.

Active in France.

Born 1908, in Vilnius; died 1995, in Paris.

Painter, draughtsman. Theatre decoration.

Moses Bagel studied with Klee and Kandinsky at the Bauhaus around 1927. He created sets for the Yiddish theatre in Paris.

Nieszawer, Nadine/Boyé, Marie...

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Baj, Enrico  

Italian, 20th century, male.

Active in France.

Born 1924, in Milan; died 16 June 2003, in Vergiate, near Varese.

Painter (mixed media), collage artist, illustrator.

Nuclear Movement, International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus.

After studying at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera from 1945 to 1948, and having gained a law degree, Baj devoted himself to art from 1950. The following year he began a career that has produced a variety of artistic creations always characterised by his fighting spirit, and has embraced a raft of different groups. He started by establishing the ...

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Barthelmess, Claus  

German, 20th century, male.

Born 1900, in Neuss.

Potter.

Barthelmess was a student at the Bauhaus from 1920 to 1923 and he subsequently ran a pottery studio there. From 1927 he worked as an architectural ceramicist and potter in Düsseldorf where he taught at the Academy from ...

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Baschant, Rudolf  

Austrian, 20th century, male.

Born 1897, in Salzburg; died 1955, in Linz.

Draughtsman, engraver.

Baschant studied in Essen and Frankfurt am Main and then at the Bauhaus, from 1921 to 1924, in the engraving studio. He subsequently travelled and painted. He studied the art of book illustration in Leipzig in ...

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Batz, Eugen  

German, 20th century, male.

Born 1905, in Velbert (Rhineland); died 1986, in Wuppertal.

Painter, engraver, sculptor, watercolourist, photographer.

From 1929 to 1931, Batz studied sculpture at the Bauhaus School (school of design founded by Walter Gropius). He also studied painting under Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Staying for a time in France and Switzerland, from ...

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Beckmann, Hannes  

German, 20th century, male.

Active in the USA.

Born 1909, in Stuttgart.

Photographer.

From 1929 to 1931, Hannes Beckmann was a student on the photography course at the Bauhaus and of Klee and Kandinsky. After living in Prague, he settled in New York, where he became director of the photography department at the Guggenheim Museum, a professor of colour and design at the Cooper School of Architecture and then an art critic at Yale University. He was a theorist of industrial aesthetics....

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Berger, Otti  

Hungarian, 20th century, female.

Active in Germany.

Born 1898, in Vörösmart; died 1945.

Draughtswoman.

Otti Berger studied at the Bauhaus from 1927 until 1933, then turned temporarily to weaving and designed a large number of fabrics in Berlin for the Netherlands and England. She died in a concentration camp....

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Bjerke Petersen, Vilhelm  

Danish, 20th century, male.

Born 24 December 1909, in Copenhagen; died 13 September 1957, in Halmstad.

Painter.

Bjerke Petersen studied under Klee and Kandinsky at the Bauhaus in Dessau in or around 1926. On his return to Denmark, he was keen to promote the concepts and work of non-figurative artists. Accordingly, he edited the periodical ...

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Blomeier, Hermann  

German, 20th century, male.

Active in Constance.

Born 1907, in Gelsenkirchen.

Architect.

Hermann Blomeier followed courses under Kandinsky and Klee at the Bauhaus from 1930 to 1932.

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Bogler, Theodor  

German, 20th century, male.

Born 1897, in Hofgeismars; died 1968, at the abbey of Maria-Laach.

Draughtsman.

Theodor Bogler studied architecture and art history in Munich after World Was I, then spent time at the Bauhaus from 1919-1925. He went on to direct the arts and crafts department of a sandstone factory near Berlin. He took holy orders at the Maria Laach abbey in ...

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Braig, Paul  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 14 July 1906, in Munich; died 9 November 1972, in Paris.

Painter, engraver. Figures, nudes, portraits, landscapes, seascapes.

Paul Braig studied in Munich and from 1923 to 1924 at the Bauhaus in Dessau under Kandinsky and Klee. He then spent time in Florence where he discovered Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. In ...

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Bredendieck, Hin  

American, 20th century, male.

Born 1904.

Draughtsman, designer.

Hin Bredendieck was an industrial designer and lived and worked in Atlanta. He studied in Stuttgart and Hamburg and was a student at the Bauhaus between 1927 and 1930. From 1937 to 1945, he was director of the foundation course at the New Bauhaus in Chicago....

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Breustedt, Hans J.  

Austrian, 20th century, male.

Born 1901, in Steinach (Thuringia).

Painter.

Studied between 1920 and 1923 under Lyonel Feininger at the Bauhaus in Dessau and went on to teach art in Thuringia until 1933, at which point his art was proscribed by the National Socialists as 'degenerate'....

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Bultman, Fritz  

American, 20th century, male.

Born 1919, in New Orleans; died 1985.

Painter, sculptor.

Fritz Bultman studied at the New Orleans Art and Craft School and then at the New Bauhaus in Chicago from 1937 to 1938 and finally with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown from 1938 to 1940...

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Clemens, Roman  

German, 20th century, male.

Active in Switzerland.

Born 1910, in Dessau.

Painter. Stage sets.

Having been a student on Oscar Schlemmer's theatrical course at the Bauhaus from 1927 to 1931, Roman Clemens settled in Zurich and followed his chosen profession in the city's theatres, painting stage sets....

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Coester, Otto  

German, 20th century, male.

Born 3 April 1902, in Rödinghausen am Herford.

Painter.

Otto Coester studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar and, from 1934, was a professor at the Düsseldorf academy of art. In 1951, he was the recipient of the prize awarded by the city of Wuppertal, and, in ...