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Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack
A new book telling the story of one of Modernist Germany’s most influential artists. A life bound up with Oskar Schlemmer, Hans Scharoun, Paul Klee, Kandinsky and other greats
Ludwig in his studio in Berlin with a painting of women surrounded by gas-like substances
Bauhaus artist, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, a man whose name should really be more well known than it is. His journey took him from Weimar to Berlin, from Welsh mining communities to the most English of public schools, to being wrongly classified as an Enemy Alien. His final humiliation was being arrested, interned and sent to Australia on the infamous HMT Dunera – and while on board witnessing inhumane treatment by guards.
Now, with meticulous research by Resi Schwarzbauer and Chris Bell (Ludwig’s grandson), we have the opportunity to learn about how a German artist ended up as a much-loved secondary school teacher in Australia, turning down the opportunity to join his friends and colleagues, Walter Gropius and Josef and Annie Albers, in America. And how unexpectedly, it was in Australia that he found peace and fulfilment.
Abstract 1962 Watercolour and pencil over monotype on woven paper, 28.7 x 22cm Gift of Mrs L. Hirschfeld Mack 1976 Collection: Queensland Art Galle
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The collection of the Bauhaus-Archiv contains around one million items and documents on the Bauhaus and those involved with it. Every year our team discovers new works which reveal yet unknown stories about the Bauhaus. Occasionally our staff selects a newly acquired work to present to you. This time it’s a painting by Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack.
In spring 2022, the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin purchased a set of 16 works for its collection by the Bauhaus instructor Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack (1893–1965). These include a painting of a doll in a white dress with four colour wheels of varying sizes located diagonally where its hands and feet should be. The work combines two important aspects of Hirschfeld-Mack’s work at the Bauhaus Weimar – his interest in colours and pedagogical toys.
Painting “Doll with Colour Wheels”
ca. 1923
Tempera on canvas
35 x 44,5 cm
The painting was created at a time when Hirschfeld-Mack initiated and independently held an extracurricular seminar for himself and his fellow students on the impact of colours and shapes. He used colour charts and wheels as teaching materials to illustrate the range of shades, mixtures and intensities of colour. He was also studying pedagogical toys around the same time. In 1924 he created the “Optical Colour Mixer”