Play, Life, Illusion. Xanti Schawinsky at Kunsthalle Bielefeld
...Reflecting back on the summer of 1923 Xanti Schawinsky recalled, "one day, during a break, a tennis coach named Niels Peterson asked me if I knew a school in Weimar called 'Bauhaus'"... Born in Basel, Switzerland, on March 25th 1904 as the second child to Polish merchants Benjamin and Regina, Alexander 'Xanti' Schawinsky began to train as an architect in Cologne in 1921 before the aforementioned 1923 visit to the Bauhaus Woche, that first major Bauhaus exhibition, that first major public elucidation of Bauhaus, inspired him to enrol at Bauhaus Weimar...
