Heinz Schwerin
Heinz Schwerin (born February 4, 1910 in Katowitz / Upper Silesia ; died February 3, 1948 in Palestine ) was a German interior designer and craftsman who studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1931 . After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he fled Germany and lived from 1935 in Palestine. Here he and his wife Ricarda Schwerin made wooden toys for children. Heinz Schwerin is one of around 25 former Bauhaus members who immigrated to the then British mandate of Palestine in the 1930s .
Life
Heinz Schwerin was the son of a wealthy entrepreneurial couple of Jewish origin. In 1928 he passed his apprentice carpenter examination at the Free School Community of Wickersdorf . In 1931 he enrolled at the Bauhaus in Dessau, where he studied for two semesters in the building construction workshop and the master class of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe . Schwerin was an elected student representative and, as a member of the Communist Study Group (Kostufra), an avowed Communist . After a scandal about the unification in the winter of 1931/1932, the Bauhaus disciplinary committee imposed a ban on him and he had to leave the facility without a diploma . He went to Berlin with his wife Ricarda Schwerin , whom he had met at the Bauhaus . His wife worked there in the photo studio of Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach . In 1933 Heinz and Ricarda Schwerin moved to Frankfurt am Main , where both continued their studies at the School for Free and Applied Arts .
During the time of National Socialism , Heinz Schwerin was arrested for distributing communist leaflets and was able to flee after a short time. He and his wife fled to Prague in May 1933 , where they both founded the advertising agency Hammer and Brush . From there they emigrated to Geneva and in 1935 to Hungary . They married in Pécs on May 25, 1935. The former Bauhaus students Etel Fodor-Mittag and Ernst Mittag were best witnesses. In August 1935 the couple emigrated to Palestine and lived in Jerusalem . There, Heinz Schwerin and his wife founded a workshop for the production of wooden toys in 1936 . According to some sources it was named Schwerin Wooden Toys , according to other sources it was called Pioneers of the Wooden Toy in Palestine . In 1937 the couple represented the British Mandate Palestine with their wooden toys at the Paris World Exhibition . In 1941 the daughter Jutta was born and in 1945 the son Tom was born. In 1948, Heinz Schwerin had a fatal accident in the Palestine War while fighting the Hagana .
reception
In 2013 an exhibition at the Bauhaus Dessau entitled From Bauhaus to Palestine: Chanan Frenkel - Ricarda and Heinz Schwerin was dedicated to the work of Heinz Schwerin.
Web links
- Heinz Schwerin 1931–1932. Student at the Bauhaus at bauhaus100.de
- Photo by Heinz Schwerin at Künste im Exile
Individual evidence
- ^ From the Bauhaus to Palestine: Chanan Frenkel, Ricarda and Heinz Schwerin in Hagalil from June 13, 2013
- ↑ a b Renata Schmidtkunz: Back to Dessau in Jüdische Allgemeine from July 1, 2013
- ↑ Presentation of wooden toys in the shop window of the Schwerins' Jerusalem workshop, 1942/43 at Künste im Exil
- ↑ Chanan Frenkel, Ricarda and Heinz Schwerin - From Bauhaus to Palestine at bauhaus-dessau.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwerin, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German interior designer and artisan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Katowice , Upper Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 1948 |
| Place of death | Palestine |