Introduction

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One dramatic event during this period was the visit of a Soviet delegation from the famous Moscow Hutemas (the artistic-technical workshop academy) which was regarded as the only institute capable of competing with the Bauhaus on the continent. This was the period of intense artistic and cultural ties between Germany and the Soviet Union. The group of Moscow designers and architects was warmly received, and the task of guiding them through the Bauhaus was entrusted to me, as the only Slavic-born Bauhäusler. (I talked to them in Polish and some broken Russian.) There were some fierce debates between them and Hannes Meyer about study methods and approaches to design problems. As a result of this visit, the Russians invited a Bauhaus delegation to visit Moscow and the Hutemas.

In the spring of 1928, three Bauhaus delegates, including myself and the master of the weaving department, Gunta Stölzl, went to Moscow. She was to become my first wife during the next Bauhaus period. Our daughter Yael came to Israel after the war. She built her home here and works today in our architectural workshop.

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