Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack

Ludwig Hirschfeld- Mack ( born July 11, 1893 in Frankfurt am Main, † January 7, 1965 in Sydney, Australia ) was a German painter and " colored light - musician ".

He received his education among others from 1912 to 1914 at the Debschitz School in Munich and later at the Weimar Bauhaus. From 1922 he developed along the lines of Kurt Schwerdtfeger in Weimar, the so-called " color light music ".

Hirschfeldt -Mack was with the former Bauhaus master Gertrud Grunow 1930 participants of the Second Congress for color -tone Research in Hamburg.

Career

Ludwig Hirschfeld- Mack first attended the model school, a choice of musical grammar school in Frankfurt am Main. He learned his artistic training in teaching and research studio for Applied and Fine Arts at Hermann Obrist and Wilhelm von Debschitz in Munich. When Heinrich and Fritz Burger Wölfflin he heard art history lectures. During the First World War, Ludwig Hirschfeld- Mack 1914-1918 infantry officer.

In 1920, he became an apprentice for the art printing craft at the Bauhaus in Weimar. His journeyman he graduated in 1921 in the copper pressure and was also budget journeyman in the graphic printing of the Bauhaus, where he became a journeyman in 1922 and 1924 representatives finally as Bauhaus apprentice took his final examination in lithography and lithography. He remained there until 1926, and its activities revolved around extra-curricular seminars color, color top, its Educational dollhouse and developed by Kurt Schwerdtfeger Light Plays, which were later called color light games.

In 1926, Ludwig Hirschfeld- Mack art teacher in the Free School Community Wickersdorf. In 1929 he got a job at the State University of Crafts and Architecture in Weimar as a teacher of general color and morphology. A year later he became a professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Frankfurt ( Oder) ( building now used by the Gauss -Gymnasium ). In 1932 he taught at the Pedagogical Academy in Kiel, but in 1933 by the Nazis in a guided according to their ideology College of Teacher Education ( HfL ) was converted. He went to 1935 to the Jöde-Schule/Günther-Schule in Berlin and employed students and with the construction of simple musical instruments. There

1936 Mack emigrated to England. He taught art and works on the Subsistence Production Society of the Eastern Valley of Monmouthshire in South Wales. His daughter Marga followed him into exile in England in 1936, the other daughter Ursel (17 ) committed suicide in 1937 in the wake of increasing repression in Germany suicide. 1940 was deported on the ship HMT Dunera to Australia and interned in the camps Hay, Tatura and Orange Ludwig Hirschfeld- Mack as enemy alien. He now took on Australian citizenship. Until his retirement at the Geelong Church of England Grammar School in Victoria, he was then head of the art school and a guest lecturer at the University of Melbourne. He still took several trips to Europe and drove the revival of color light games ahead. Ludwig Hirschfeld- Mack died on January 7, 1965 in Sydney.

Hirschfeld- Mack professorships in Germany and Australia

2008 at the Institute of English Philology at the Free University of Berlin ( FU), a Ludwig Hirschfeld- Mack Visiting Chair of Australian Studies was established. The visiting professorship is named after Hirschfeld- Mack, the FU, "to stress the interdisciplinary nature of its teachers, Their commitment to the role of culture in the public sphere, and the central transcultural German - Australian aspect of the project. " The chair is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD) and the Australian Embassy in Berlin. Previous Hirschfeld- Mack professors in Berlin were Dr. Stephen Muecke, Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Technology Sydney (winter semester 2008/ 09) and Dr. Philip Mead, Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia, Perth ( winter semester 2009/10).

In 2010, again with support from the DAAD, in the reverse direction, a Hirschfeld- Mack Visiting Chair for German Studies at the German Department of the University of Western Australia established in Perth. This " tandem" visiting professor of exchange between the Australian and German higher education system should be further intensified. First Hirschfeld- Mack professors in Perth were the Germanists Matthias N. Lorenz, University of Bern (2010), and Prof. Dr. Sven Kramer, University of Lüneburg ( 2011).