Naum Slutzky

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Naum Slutzky ( Ukrainian Наум Слуцький Naum Sluzkyj , Russian Наум Слуцкий Naum Sluzki ; born February 28, 1894 in Kiev , Russian Empire , †  November 4, 1965 in Stevenage , England ) was a Ukrainian goldsmith , teacher of industrial design and master at the Weimar Bauhaus .

Life

Vienna, Weimar, Berlin (1905 to 1927)

Naum Slutzky was born in Kiev, today's capital of Ukraine . He came from an old goldsmith family. His father Nachman was already employed as a craftsman at the Kiev branch of the court jeweler Carl Peter Fabergé . Around 1905 his family emigrated to Vienna because of their Jewish faith . After an apprenticeship , he became a goldsmith in the Wiener Werkstätte in 1912 . In 1914 he studied at the Technical University in Vienna. Around 1917 to 1919 he took art lessons at Johannes Itten's private art school in Vienna and was appointed assistant master at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919 by Walter Gropius , was there in 1921 the junior master of the metal workshop at the Bauhaus and became a master of goldsmithing the following year. One of his most important works at the Bauhaus is a trailer made between 1920 and 1922, which he gave to the Bauhaus student Else Kleinwort and which was therefore considered lost until it was rediscovered at Kunst & Krempel in the BR in 2009 . In 1923 he married the craftsman and interior designer Hedwig Arnheim . In 1924 he left the Bauhaus to work as an interior and lighting designer . 1924-1927 is Naum Slutzky held in Vienna and Berlin and worked for the workshops visual arts of Friedl Dicker and Franz Singer .

Hamburg (1927 to 1933)

In 1927 Slutzky settled in his wife's parents' house on Isequai 5 in Hamburg; there he designed a. a. the light objects of the Emelka Palace for Karl Schneider . A fruitful creative period began. He exhibited with the Hamburger Sezession in the Hamburger Kunsthalle and made friends with Max Sauerlandt , the director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg , who provided him with material and ideal support, made many contacts in the Hanseatic city and finally helped him emigrate to Great Britain . In 1930 the childless marriage with Hedwig Arnheim was dissolved. In 1937, many of his works fell victim to the National Socialist Action Degenerate Art .

During archaeological excavations in advance of the construction of the new Rotes Rathaus underground station , the Berlin sculpture was found in 2010 . Eleven sculptures by various artists were rediscovered, which had been confiscated from German museums in 1937 in order to be shown in the Degenerate Art exhibitions. Among them was the female bust by Naum Slutzky , which was created before 1931. These and the other works were shown in the exhibition Der Berliner Skulpturenfund. “Degenerate Art” presented in the bomb rubble in the Greek courtyard of the Neues Museum on Museum Island. The exhibition continued from April to the end of September 2012 at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg .

London, Birmingham (1933 to 1965)

In 1933 Slutzky emigrated to London and taught at Dartington Hall School in Totnes , (Devon) from 1935 to 1940 . From 1946 to 1950 he became a teacher at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, in 1950 he founded the product design department at the School of Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art in London. From 1957 to 1964 he headed the industrial design department at the College of Arts and Crafts, Birmingham . In 1965 he was given a teaching position at Ravensbourne College of Art. Slutzky died on November 4, 1965 in Stevenage / Hertfordshire .

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Slutzky was a versatile artist, whose life's work included pieces of jewelry such as necklaces, bracelets, rings and brooches in high craftsmanship as unique items, as well as - especially from 1930 - also models for jewelry that, with inexpensive materials, were intended for industrial production were. As early as 1925, when he was in Berlin, Slutzky also designed furniture such as armchairs, bookshelves, tables and loungers, which, like his other designs, were based on simplicity, practicality and material justice. During his time in Hamburg, industrial designs came to the fore. Desk lamps for the company Chr. Zimmermann in Frankfurt am Main were created as well as a design for table cutlery for JA Henckels in Solingen . In addition, Slutzky dealt with lighting and metal design. The main works were the lighting of the Bugenhagen Church, the auditorium of the Museum of Art and Industry , the Emelka Film Palace and the New Israelite Temple, all in Hamburg. But works of "free art" were also created: designs for animal sculptures and figurative works are known. During his time in England , Slutzky was primarily a teacher: he founded industrial design departments at art schools and shaped generations of British industrial designers in 30 years of teaching.

Exhibitions selection

1928 to 1965

From 1965

Publicly owned works

Literature (selection)

  • Alfred Rohde : Hamburgische Werkkunst of the present. Broschek & Co. publishing house, Hamburg 1927
  • Monika Rudolph: Naum Slutzky. Master at the Bauhaus, goldsmith and designer. Arnold, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-925369-06-6
  • Rüdiger Joppien (Ed.): Naum Slutzky. A Bauhaus artist in Hamburg. 1894-1965. Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg 1995
  • Klaus Weber (ed.): The metal workshop at the Bauhaus. Exhibition in the Bauhaus Archive, Museum of Design, Berlin, February 9–20. April 1992. Kupfergraben-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-405-4

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Pinakothek der Moderne: Bauhaus trailer by Naum Slutzky . 2016
  2. ^ Heinrich de Fries : Karl Schneider: Buildings. With an introduction by Heinrich de Fries . Hübsch, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1929; New edition: Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7861-2365-9
  3. ^ National Museums in Berlin: The Berlin Sculpture Find. “Degenerate Art” in bomb rubble
  4. ^ Nazi exhibition "Degenerate Art": Lost sculptures rediscovered . In: Spiegel Online . November 8, 2010
  5. ^ Museum of Art and Industry Hamburg: The Berlin Sculpture Find . 2012
personal data
SURNAME Slutzky, Naum
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Слуцкий, Наум
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian consumer designer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1965
Place of death Stevenage