Friedl Dicker-Brandeis: Works from the Collection of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis: Works from the Collection of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Edited by Stefanie Kitzberger , Cosima Rainer, and Linda Schädler
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.
Essays by Julie M. Johnson, Robin Rehm, Daniela Stöppel, and others. Monograph made to accompany an exhibition in Vienna and Zurich; awarded as one of the most beautiful books in Austria in 2022.
Hardcover
352 pages | 150 colored illustrations
De Gruyter, 2022
6.5 x 9.4 inches
ISBN 9783110789065
Monograph, Bauhaus Design and Architecture