Hans Hess was one of that brilliant generation of anti-fascist refugees who so enriched Britain’s cultural life.

He gave students at the first communist school of art, organised in 1968 at the Marx Memorial Library, an object lesson in dialectical thinking.

I was among that generation of embattled students deeply involved in controversies about the structure and content of art and design education, and he commanded us to understand our practice as artists and designers and that the behaviour of the individuals within the structures in which we existed — and the way these institutions were constructed and operated — were deeply ideological phenomena.