Hans Schleger [also known as Zéró] was born in Hans Leo Degenhard Schlesinger in Kempen, Prussia, Germany [now Kepno, Poland] on 29 December 1898 [he assumed the surname Schleger in 1919]. About 1904 he moved with his family to Berlin. After serving in the German Army from 1916 to 1918, he studied painting and drawing at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin from 1918 to 1921. From 1921 to 1924 he was publicity manager and set designer for a film company run by John Hagenbeck (1866-1940) in Berlin. He moved to the USA in 1924 and settled in New York, where he worked as a magazine paste-up artist and freelance advertising designer. Within two years of his arrival, Schleger had his own studio at 270 Madison Avenue which he ran under the name of Zéró.

Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)


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