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The Private Adolf Loos
Portrait of an Eccentric Genius
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Artikel-Nr:
9780997003482
Veröffentl:
2020
Erscheinungsdatum:
17.03.2020
Seiten:
176
Autor:
Claire Beck Loos
Gewicht:
227 g
Format:
196x127x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Claire Beck Loos (November 4, 1904 - January 15, 1942*) was a Czechoslovakian photographer and writer. She was the third wife of early modernist Czechoslovak-Austrian architect Adolf Loos. She worked in the atelier of Hede Pollak in Prague and studied photography in Vienna at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt. In 1936, she published Adolf Loos Privat, a literary work of anecdotes about her ex-husband's character, habits, and sayings. Published by the Johannes-Presse in Vienna, the book was intended to raise funds for Adolf Loos's tomb, as he had died destitute three years earlier. She moved to Prague at the beginning of World War II and was deported to Theresienstadt at the end of 1941 and from there to Riga, Latvia, where she was killed in the Holocaust. *Her death date is thus only an estimate.
Lively, snapshot-like vignettes form an intimate, literary portrait of the infamously eccentric and influential modern architect Adolf Loos.
Editor's Introductory NotesPreface: Reflections of a Female ProtegeAdolf Loos: A Short BiographyClaire Beck Loos: The Fractured LensIntroduction to The Private Adolf LoosForeword by Claire Beck LoosThe Private Adolf LoosAppendicesAdolf Loos' Circle, Some ContextKey to NamesErrataLove Letters from Adolf Loos to Claire BeckPhotographsSelect Writings By Adolf LoosPotteryIn Praise of the PresentBeethoven's EarsOrnament and EducationShort Hair: Short or Long-Masculine or Feminine?Oskar KokoschkaAcknowledgments