 Among his teachers there were Richard Winckel and Kurt Tuch, as of 1918.From 1919 until 1921, he completed his studies at the same school as a "Stipendiat" (a person receiving a scholarship).Between 1921 and 1925, he was a student at the Bauhaus, at first in Weimar with Johannes Itten, and then in Dessau, where he received a special teaching post at the Bauhaus.