Joost Schmidt

Joost Schmidt (Wunstorf, 5 January 1893 - Nürnberg, 2 December 1948) was a German typographer, a teacher and master at the Bauhaus, and later a professor at the College of Visual Arts, Berlin.

[2] When he first came to Bauhaus, Schmidt started a sculpting apprenticeship with Johannes Iiten and Oskar Schlemmer.

The concepts that he taught were the contrasted theory of both elementary form and bodies being applied to space.

[1] In the years of 1929-1930, he taught life and figure drawing classes for upper division work.

After receiving his diploma in 1914 in painting, he served in the military and was briefly a prisoner of war until he returned to his work in Germany in 1918.