Friedl Dicker-Brandeis: Works from the Collection of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

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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. Contents Greeting Greeting Foreword Foreword Whatever You See Could Just as Well Have Been Otherwise An Introduction to This Volume Space Loops. Political Dimensions of Layering, Interweaving, and Intertwining in Friedl Dicker-Brandeis’s Work in the Context of European Avant-Gardes Seated and Floating Nude Reclining Figures, Seated Figures, Nudes The Unbinding Interior of Friedl Dicker Two Handbags, Leather Pattern, and a Design Draft for a Handbag Textiles—Eleven Fabric Samples, Scarf, and Tapestry Designs for the Theater Cardboard, Painted on Both Sides: Hydrangea / Figures Flirting Couples Seated Figures with Wings Between Media— Registering Practices of Knowing The Interrogation A Negative and a Positive Variation of the Same Form Held by a Force Field Wafted Over by a Ribbon Compositions with Abstract Figures Genre Scenes—Landscapes, Still Life, and a Cat— Twelve Drawings Art in the Face of Fascism. On the Political in the Work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis around 1930 to 1942 Photo Collages Fuchs Learns Spanish Dark Lithographs Growing through Art. Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and Her Work with Children in Context Invitations to the 1st and the 8th Bauhaus Evening Composition with Musical Instruments Seven Portraits Woman with Headscarf The Psychology of Art. Form and Color in the Work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis Studies of Anna Selbdritt A Composition with Spiral and a Red Demon Strategies of Flexibility in Interior Designs by Friedl Dicker and Franz Singer List of Works Bibliography Biography Friedl Dicker-Brandeis Exhibitions, Theatrical Productions Song Evenings, Lectures Biographies Imprint Notes