Education
Slutzky studied to become a goldsmith at Wiener Werkstätte (for Josef Hoffmann and Edward Wimmer among others) in Vienna. Thereafter he studied at in Weimar.
Slutzky studied to become a goldsmith at Wiener Werkstätte (for Josef Hoffmann and Edward Wimmer among others) in Vienna. Thereafter he studied at in Weimar.
In the art history literature his first name is sometimes spelled as Nahum or Nawn. At, Slutzky worked with Johannes Itten. He mainly designed jewellery and lamps, but also a few teapots and coffee pots (there is a silver teapot in the collections of Victoria and Albert Museum London, and a coffee pot in Nationalmuseum/National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm).
In 1924 he left to become an independent designer.
In 1933, when the school was closed by the Nazis, Slutzky fled to where he initially found work at Dartington, then mainly worked as a design teacher, at Central College of Arts and Crafts, at Royal College of Art, in London, and at College of Arts and Crafts, in Birmingham. In Birmingham, he worked closely with the local firm Best & Lloyd.
Slutzky taught Three-Dimensional Design at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, Bromley, Kent 1963-1965. 1928 to 1965 1928 Hamburger Sezession, 8.
Sezessionsausstellung 1930 Hamburger Neue Sezession, Kunsthalle Hamburg 1930 Deutscher Werkbund im Grand Palais, Paris 1931 Hamburger Sezession, 10.
Sezessionsausstellung 1961 1961: Schmuck aus Hamburger Zeit from 1965 1966 Musée des Artes Décoratives, Paris (Frankreich) 1968 Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart: 50 Jahre 1983 Kunsthalle Hamburg: Schmuck von Naum Slutzky 1986 Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin: Kunst im Exil 1995: Naum Slutzky - Ein künstler, 1995 Klaus Weber (ed), Die Metallwerkstatt am,, 1992.