Friedl Dicker-Brandeis: Works from the Collection of the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Edition Angewandte)

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.

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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