Naum Slutzky
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Naum Slutzky was an Ukrainan designer (born in 1894 in Kiev, died in 1965).
Slutzky studied to become a goldsmith at Wiener Werkstätte (for Josef Hoffmann and Edward Wimmer among others) in Vienna. Thereafter he studied at Bauhaus in Weimar. At Bauhaus, Slutzky worked with Johannes Itten. He mainly designed jewellery and lamps, but also a few teapots (there is one teapot in the collections of Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and one steel coffee pot in Nationalmuseum/National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm).
In 1933, when the Bauhaus school was closed by the Nazis, Slutzky fled to England where he mainly worked as a design teacher, at Central College of Arts and Crafts, at Royal College of Art, in London, and at College of Arts and Crafts, in Birmingham.
Literature: Monica Rudolph, "Naum Slutzky - Meister am Bauhaus, Goldschmied und Designer". Dr. Rüdiger Joppien (ed.), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, "Ein Bauhauskünstler in Hamburg - Naum Slutzky", Hamburg, 1995. Jutta Weber & Klaus Weber (ed.) "Die Metallwerkstatt am Bauhaus", Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, 1998.
