b'21613711371 Weimar Bauhaus, studying under Johannes Itten, Paul Klee LUDWIG HIRSCHFELD MACK (1893-1964), and Wassily Kandinsky. When the Bauhaus was relocated at Dessau in 1925, Hirschfeld-Mack remained at Weimar Abstract Composition with figures, and taught in schools and teachers colleges before moving Monotype with watercolour on paper, to Berlin in 1934. The rise of the Nazis forced him to leave signed L.H. Mack and dated 1959 lower left, Germany because of his part-Jewish heritage. In Britain from 20 x 23cm; framed 32 x 36cm. March 1936, he worked for subsistence societies in Wales, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack (1893-1965), artist and teacher, wastaught in a preparatory school and developed large-scale, born on 11 July 1893 at Frankfurt am Main, Germany, sonprojected-light advertising projects. He lent a number of of Ernst Hirschfeld, a manufacturer of leather goods, andhis works to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for its his wife Clara, ne Mack, both members of the EvangelicalBauhaus retrospective of 1938.Reformed Church. Young Ludwig was encouraged to expressIn 1940 Hirschfeld-Mack was deported to Australia as an his inquisitive nature through art. After attending the Musterenemy alien in the Dunera. He was interned at Hay and gymnasium at Frankfurt am Main, he studied painting andOrange, New South Wales, and at Tatura, Victoria. There crafts at the Debschitz Schule, Munich, and attended lectureshe made a number of woodcuts that illustrated life under in art history at the University of Munich. Conscripted intodetention. Released in 1942 through the sponsorship of (Sir) the German Army at the outbreak of World War I, he wasJames Darling, headmaster of Geelong Church of England promoted lieutenant and won the Iron Cross. In 1917 heGrammar School, Hirschfeld-Mack was appointed its art married Elenor Wirth who brought him into contact with themaster. He promoted his pupils self-knowledge, introduced Society of Friends. them to avant-garde painting techniques, and encouraged On being discharged at the end of the war, Hirschfeldwood-carving, weaving, musical instrument-making, attended the Stuttgart Academy where he was introducedleatherwork and other crafts.to colour theory and printmaking. In 1919 he enrolled at the$3,0005,000'