Frederick Kiesler papers
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Kiesler, Lillian, 1911-2001
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Lillian Olinsey was born in 1911. She studied art at the Art Students League, Cooper Union, and the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, where she also assisted Hofmann and the school administration. She taught art to children and young adults for twenty years in New York City. From 1945 to 1955, she taught at the Greenwich House Art workshops and the Woodward School, followed by the Brooklyn Museum (1948-1958), Barnard School (1953-1963), New York University School of Education (1955-1966), and Ju...
Kiesler, Stefi, 1897-1963
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Stefi Kiesler was born Stephanie Frischer on July 18, 1897 in Austro-Hungary. She was an artist who specialized in "typo-plastics", artwork that utilized typewritten material and worked under the name "Pietro Saga". She married Austrian architect and theater designer Frederick Kiesler in 1920. They moved to New York City in 1926. In 1927 she began to work for the New York Public Library as a speciality in foreign languages. She died in New York City on September 3, 1963. ...
Kiesler, Frederick, 1892-1965
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Frederick John Kiesler, (born Sept. 22, 1892, Vienna, Austria—died Dec. 27, 1965, New York, N.Y., U.S.), Austrian-born American architect, sculptor, and stage designer, best known for his “Endless House,” a womblike, free-form structure. After study at the Technical Academy and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Kiesler worked on a slum clearance and rebuilding project in Vienna with Adolf Loos. In the early 1920s Kiesler began to design for the stage. He designed what was probably the first...
