Graphic artist and architect
Fritz Schleifer
A Weimar Bauhaus student who designed a poster for its first exhibition, then taught and built in Hamburg.
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The life
1903–1977Born Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Germany
Fritz Schleifer studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1922 to 1924 under Oskar Schlemmer and Wassily Kandinsky, and designed a poster for its first exhibition in 1923. He then studied architecture in Munich and worked in Hamburg, where from 1930 he taught the foundation classes at the Landeskunstschule until the Nazis dismissed him in 1933. After the war he returned there to lead a class in architecture. Our card, Rising Wedge, is the original lithograph he made for the Bauhaus book of 1923.