Year Of Birth

1893

Year Of Death

1965

Biography

Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack was a German-born Australian artist. His formative education was from 1912 until 1914 at the Debschitz-Schule (art school) in Munich founded by Wilhelm von Debschitz. Hirschfeld-Mack studied at the Bauhaus from 1919 until 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 produce moving colours on a transparent screen accompanied by music composed by Hirschfeld-Mack. It is now regarded as an early form of multimedia. Music and colour theory remained lifelong interests, informing his art work in a variety of media.