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

Stefanie Kitzberger, Cosima Rainer, Collection and Archive, Univ. of Applied Arts Vienna

Linda Schädler, Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zurich