Friedl Dicker-Brandeis

Cosima Rainer

ISBN 10: 311078906X / ISBN 13: 9783110789065

Published by De Gruyter, DE, 2022

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Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis The work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898-1944) occupies a key position in the broader history of the Austrian avant-garde while also deepening our understanding of modernism. Her work covers an impressive range of media and genres in the visual and applied arts. Influenced by her studies at Vienna's Kunstgewerbeschule (which later became the University of Applied Arts Vienna), the Itten Private School, and the Bauhaus in Weimar, she worked as a painter, stage designer, architect, designer in Vienna and Berlin, in exile, and as a deportee. This book explores the heterogeneity of Dicker's work, reconstructs her artistic strategies and references to aesthetic and political discourses from the 1920s to the 1940s, and documents for the first time her works in the collection of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Look inside Portrait of her work and collection catalog, dedicated to the artist, designer, and architect Friedl Dicker-Brandeis Essays by Julie M. Johnson, Robin Rehm, Daniela Stöppel, and others To accompany an exhibition in Vienna and Zurich; awarded as one of the most beautiful books in Austria in 2022.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
• Publisher: De Gruyter, DE
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 311078906X
• ISBN 13: 9783110789065
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 16.51W x 2.79H x 23.88D centimeters 16.51 centimeters width by 2.79 centimeters height by 23.88 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1003 grams

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Synopsis

Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis

The work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898–1944) occupies a key position in the broader history of the Austrian avant-garde while also deepening our understanding of modernism.

Her work covers an impressive range of media and genres in the visual and applied arts. Influenced by her studies at Vienna’s Kunstgewerbeschule (which later became the University of Applied Arts Vienna), the Itten Private School, and the Bauhaus in Weimar, she worked as a painter, stage designer, architect, designer in Vienna and Berlin, in exile, and as a deportee.

This book explores the heterogeneity of Dicker’s work, reconstructs her artistic strategies and references to aesthetic and political discourses from the 1920s to the 1940s, and documents for the first time her works in the collection of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

• Portrait of her work and collection catalog, dedicated to the artist, designer, and architect Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
• Essays by Julie M. Johnson, Robin Rehm, Daniela Stöppel, and others
• To accompany an exhibition in Vienna and Zurich

About the Authors

Stefanie Kitzberger, Cosima Rainer, Kunstsammlung u. Archiv, Univ. f. angew. Kunst Wien

Linda Schädler, Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Stefanie Kitzberger, Cosima Rainer, Collection and Archive, Univ. of Applied Arts Vienna

Linda Schädler, Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zurich