Werner Jackson

Werner Jackson (born April 17, 1904 in Holzminden as Werner Isaacsohn; died July 3, 1984 in Oxford ) was a graphic artist who studied at the State Bauhaus .

Werner Jackson was next to two sisters the youngest child of the Jewish businessman Iwan Isaacsohn (born January 23, 1866 in Hamburg , died 1919 in Holzminden) and his wife Betty (born October 3, 1864 in Wattenscheid , died 1905). In 1907, his father married the sister of his late wife Thekla Mandel (born July 22, 1867 in Lippstadt, died May 3, 1941 in Camp de Gurs ), who was the first matron of Gumpertz's infirmary in Frankfurt am Main . She co-founded the professional Jewish nursing in Germany. The graves of his parents Iwan and Betty are in one of the Jewish cemeteries in Holzminden .

Werner Jackson was a student at the Bauhaus from 1924 to 1928, where he passed his journeyman's examination and later worked for Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy . He was trained in the workshop for wall painting in Weimar and Dessau . He also took the subjects of typography, advertising and photography. As a member of the Bauhaus band , he contributed to the social life at the Bauhaus. Jackson ran a studio for photography and advertising graphics in Berlin and Brno . In 1939 he emigrated to Great Britain, where he worked as a puppet maker and toy designer. Most recently he was a commercial artist at the Pressed Steel Company in Oxford.

Most of his estate is in the Berlin State Library and the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin.

Web links

• Photo by Werner Jackson in the 1950s

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jewish nursing history
2. ↑ Isaacsohn, Ivan Gravestone
3. ↑ Isaacsohn, Betty (née Mandel) gravestone
4. ↑ "Jackson, Werner" from the database of the Research Center for Biographies of Former Bauhaus Members (BeBA)
5. ^ "The Man from the Bauhaus": the Lost Career of Werner Jacky Jackson, abstract