During her lifetime, the Viennese artist and teacher FRIEDL DICKER-BRANDEIS had only one exhibition of her work. Now, more than half a century after her death, critics, historians and researchers from diverse disciplines are expressing a new and far-reaching interest in this innovative and inspiring figure.
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis was a painter, working alongside Klee and Kandinsky, influenced by, and an influence upon, the Bauhaus. She was an inventive designer of furniture and created stage sets for Berthold Brecht. She was a teacher whose theories and lectures were the foundations of art therapy. Before her death in Auschwitz, she brought art and life to scores of children in the Terezin concentration camp, work that is both deeply moving and of continued historical signifi-cance.
For the first time, a retrospective of the life, art and teachings of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis has been assembled by noted historian Elena Makarova and an international group including critics, psychologists, architects, historians and Friedl's own friends, family and students. This comprehensive overview of the contributions of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis will be seen in a worldwide traveling exhibition as well as in this volume.
FRIEDL DICKER-BRANDEIS:
illuminates the work and the passion of this singular woman who shunned notoriety and recognition and stated, "I belong, like mortar or stone, to the small building of life."
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Friedl Dicker-Brandeis was a painter, working alongside Klee and Kandinsky, influenced by, and an influence upon, the Bauhaus. She was an inventive designer of furniture and created stage sets for Berthold Brecht. She was a teacher whose theories and lectures were the foundations of art therapy. Before her death in Auschwitz, she brought art and life to scores of children in the Terezin concentration camp, work that is both deeply moving and of continued historical signifi-cance.
For the first time, a retrospective of the life, art and teachings of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis has been assembled by noted historian Elena Makarova and an international group including critics, psychologists, architects, historians and Friedl's own friends, family and students. This comprehensive overview of the contributions of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis will be seen in a worldwide traveling exhibition as well as in this volume.
FRIEDL DICKER-BRANDEIS:
illuminates the work and the passion of this singular woman who shunned notoriety and recognition and stated, "I belong, like mortar or stone, to the small building of life."
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