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
Author informationStefanie Kitzberger, Cosima Rainer, Collection and Archive, Univ. of Applied Arts Vienna
Linda Schädler, Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zurich
