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

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; awarded as one of the most beautiful books in Austria in 2022 Contents 4 Greeting 6 Greeting 7 Foreword 8 Foreword 9 Whatever You See Could Just as Well Have Been Otherwise An Introduction to This Volume 11 Space Loops. Political Dimensions of Layering, Interweaving, and Intertwining in Friedl Dicker-Brandeis’s Work in the Context of European Avant-Gardes 19 Seated and Floating Nude 46 Reclining Figures, Seated Figures, Nudes 50 The Unbinding Interior of Friedl Dicker 69 Two Handbags, Leather Pattern, and a Design Draft for a Handbag 92 Textiles—Eleven Fabric Samples, Scarf, and Tapestry 98 Designs for the Theater 110 Cardboard, Painted on Both Sides: Hydrangea / Figures 118 Flirting Couples 124 Seated Figures with Wings 128 Between Media— Registering Practices of Knowing 133 The Interrogation 152 A Negative and a Positive Variation of the Same Form Held by a Force Field Wafted Over by a Ribbon 156 Compositions with Abstract Figures 160 Genre Scenes—Landscapes, Still Life, and a Cat— Twelve Drawings 164 Art in the Face of Fascism. On the Political in the Work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis around 1930 to 1942 177 Photo Collages 200 Fuchs Learns Spanish 212 Dark Lithographs 216 Growing through Art. Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and Her Work with Children in Context 225 Invitations to the 1st and the 8th Bauhaus Evening 244 Composition with Musical Instruments 252 Seven Portraits 258 Woman with Headscarf 266 The Psychology of Art. Form and Color in the Work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis 271 Studies of Anna Selbdritt 292 A Composition with Spiral and a Red Demon 298 Strategies of Flexibility in Interior Designs by Friedl Dicker and Franz Singer 303 List of Works 333 Bibliography 341 Biography Friedl Dicker-Brandeis 344 Exhibitions, Theatrical Productions Song Evenings, Lectures 345 Biographies 348 Imprint 350 Notes 351