Naum Slutzky (28 February 1894 in

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(now Kyiv, Ukraine) – 4 November 1965 in

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, England) was a

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er and

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of the

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. In the art history literature his first name is sometimes spelled as Nahum or Nawn.

Bauhaus

Slutzky studied to become a goldsmith at

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(for

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and Edward Wimmer among others) in Vienna. From 1919 he taught at the

in Weimar, working with

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. He mainly designed jewellery and lamps, but also teapots and coffee pots (there is a silver teapot in the collections of

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London, and a coffee pot in

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/National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm). In 1924 he left Bauhaus to become an independent designer.

England

In 1933, when the

school was closed by the Nazis, Slutzky fled to England where he initially found work at the progressive art college,

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in Totness,

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. He went on to be a design teacher at Central School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal College of Art in London. While in Birmingham, he worked at The College of Arts and Crafts and collaborated with local firm Best & Lloyd Monica Bohm-Duchen (ed.) ''Insiders Outsiders'', London: Lund Humphries, 2018, p.170 At the end of his life, Slutzky taught Three-Dimensional Design at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, Bromley, Kent 1963-1965.

Exhibitions

1928 to 1965

*1928 Hamburger Sezession, 8. Sezessionsausstellung *1930 Hamburger Neue Sezession,

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*1930

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, Paris *1931 Hamburger Sezession, 10. Sezessionsausstellung *1961 Goldsmith's Hall, London *1961 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg: ''Schmuck aus Hamburger Zeit''

From 1965

*1966 Musée des Artes Décoratives, Paris (Frankreich) *1968 Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart: ''50 Jahre Bauhaus'' *1983

: ''Schmuck von Naum Slutzky'' *1986 Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin: ''Kunst im Exil'' *1995 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg: ''Naum Slutzky - Ein Bauhauskünstler''

Works in museums

* Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin * Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg *

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, London *

, London * Goldsmith's Hall, London *

, Stockholm

References

* Rohde, Alfred: ''Hamburgische Werkkunst der Gegenwart''. Broschek-Verlag Hamburg, 1927 * Monika Rudolph: ''Naum Slutzky - Meister am Bauhaus, Goldschmied und Designer'', Arnold'sche, Tübingen, 1990 * Rüdiger Joppien (ed.) ''Naum Slutzky - Ein Bauhauskünstler in Hamburg''. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 1995 * Klaus Weber (ed.), ''Die Metallwerkstatt am Bauhaus,'' Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, 1992 *

Alan Powers Alan Powers (born 1955) is a British teacher, researcher and writer on twentieth-century architecture and design. Early life Powers was raised on the borders of Hampstead Heath and in Suffolk. His father Michael was an architect member of the ...

"Britain and The Bauhaus"
in ''Apollo'' magazine, May 2006. {{DEFAULTSORT:Slutzky, Naum Academic staff of the Bauhaus British industrial designers Ukrainian designers 1894 births 1965 deaths Academics of Ravensbourne University London