Franz Ehrlich
Germany (1907—1984)Trained as a machine fitter, Ehrlich studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau under László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Joost Schmidt. He also worked in sculpture and typography and, after following Walter Gropius to Berlin, opened Studio Z with Heinz Loew and Fritz Winter, while working as a graphic designer for the illegal Communist magazine Junge Garde. Because of his Communist involvement, he was arrested in 1934 and, after serving a prison sentence, transferred to Buchenwald in 1937. There he was forced to work for the SS construction office as an architect and designer, producing furniture and buildings as well as the lettering Jedem das Seine for the camp entrance gate. After the Second World War he worked as an architect and urban planner in Dresden and Berlin, and in 1955 became an architect for the GDR Ministry for Foreign Trade.
Joost Schmidt / Wassily Kandinsky / László Moholy-Nagy / Paul Klee / Walter Gropius
