Cards Amsterdam Archive

Andor Weininger was born in Karancs in 1899. From 1917 to 1918 he studied Law, first at the University of Pécs, then at the University of Budapest. The turbulence of the revolutionary period immediately following the end of the First World War in newly independent Hungary, and particularly in Budapest, interrupted his studies. From 1921 to 1925 he studied in the Mural Painting Workshop, headed by Vasily Kandinsky at the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. He then switched (until 1928) to the class in design for the stage taught by Osklar Schlemmer after the Bauhaus had moved to Dessau. During these years Weininger's work was interrupted by long periods spent devising cabarets, providing set designs, acting and working as a musician. After 1928 he earned his living in Berlin as an interior decorator and designer. Emigrating to Holland in 1938, he worked as an illustrator and independent painter. In 1951 he emigrated again, this time to Canada, then settled in New York in 1958. Here he worked at the Art Research Center. Weininger died in New York in 1986.