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Throughout his career, Ehrlich made a point of resisting Nazism. On many occasions, he demonstrated impressive resistance! He never abandoned his convictions or the Bauhaus. The 602 furniture series designed in 1957 for the Hellerau workshops is particularly well known. Franz Ehrlich was born in Germany in 1907. He trained as a mechanical fitter in Leipzig. In 1927, he entered the Bauhaus school in Dessau. He studied with such great names as Paul Klee and Kandinsky. In 1930, he graduated in plastic arts and became a member of the German Communist Party. He subsequently collaborated with Walter Gropius, Hans Pölzig and Mies van der Rohe. At the same time, he demonstrated acts of resistance by participating in underground magazines. He was arrested and sentenced in 1934, then deported to a concentration camp in 1939. Using his art to resist the SS and the Nazi regime, he continued to draw. After the war, he continued his work as an architect. In 1980, the first exhibition devoted to his work was held.
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