Rudolf Wels

In Vienna he also attended courses given by Adolf Loos, who was to have a crucial influence on his future creative activity.

He also designed several sets of glasses for that company, as well as artistically-decorated vases, which received awards at the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts held in Paris in 1925.

In the 1930s Rudolf Wels moved to Prague, where he opened a design studio jointly with the architect Guido Lagus.

In 1934 Wels and Lagus were responsible for the art direction of four feature films, and in the subsequent years they designed a number of luxury apartment buildings.

In 1942, Rudolf Wels was interned with his wife Ida and son Martin at Terezín, from where they were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp the following year.