Naum slutzky biography

Born:1894 Kiev, Russian Empire (now Kyiv, Ukraine)

Died:1965 Stevenage, England

Year of Migration to the UK:1933

Other name/s: Nahum Slutzky, Nachmann Slutzky, Nawn Slutzky, Naum J.

Slutzky, Julius Slutzki, Naum Slucky

Biography

Modernist designer and goldsmith Naum Slutzky was born in Kiev in the Russian Empire (now Kyiv, Ukraine) in 1894, into a Jewish family, the son of goldsmith Gilel Slutzky, who worked for the firm of Carl Fabergé in Kiev.

Naum slutzky biography

In order to ecape anti-Jewish pogroms, the Slutzky family emigrated, settling in Vienna in 1905, where Naum first trained as a jeweller under Anton Diamant (1867–1922) and, in 1908, enrolled in a three-year goldsmithing apprenticeship.

From 1912–13 Slutzky worked for the artisans co-operative Wiener Werkstätte, before studying engineering at the Technische Universität Wien (1914–19), while also training at Johannes Itten's private art school (1917–19). In 1919 Itten was appointed to the Bauhaus in Weimar and reco