Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack

Vocation

German-Australian artist, musician and art educator, who wrote the 1963 book The Bauhaus: An Introductory Survey. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, included his work in its Bauhaus retrospective of 1938. His formative education was at Debschitz art school in Munich from 1912 to 1914. He studied at the Bauhaus from 1919 to 1924 and remained working there until 1926 where, along with Kurt Schwerdtfeger, he further developed the Farblichtspiele ('coloured-light-plays'), which used a projection device to produced moving colours on a transparent screen accompanied by music composed by Hirschfeld Mack. It is now regarded as an early form of multimedia. He was a participant, along with the former Bauhaus master Gertrud Grunow, in "den II. Kongreß für Farbe-Ton-Forschung (Hamburg 1. - 5. Oktober 1930)" (Second Congress for Colour-Sound Research, Hamburg). Music and colour theory remained lifelong interests, informing his art work in a number of media, and it was the inspiration for his well-respected and influential teaching. Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack died on 7 January 1965 at age 71 at Allambie Heights, a suburb of Sydney. Link to Wikipedia biography