persons Kiesler, Frederick John

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Name Kiesler, Frederick John
Alternative Names
  • alternative name >> given name: Kiesler, Friedrich Jacob
  • ID 415
    Gender male
    Lifespan 1890-09-22 - 1965-12-27
    Professions architect (Q42973), sculptor (Q1281618)
    Collection(s)
  • Ideas Crossing the Atlantic
  • Transatlantic Networks
  • Uri(s) https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ica/persons/71
    https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ica/persons/1_75
    Notes Kiesler's estate and papers, including his correspondence, architecture and stage designs, plans, and photographs, as well as his private library, film footage, and sound recordings can be accessed in the Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Austrian Private Foundation in Vienna. Kiesler's unpublished writings on the subject of "correalism" (a term inspired by Buckminster Fuller) can be found in the architecture archive of the “Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule” (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich (Lesák in "Ideas Crossing the Atlantic", p. 369)

    Relations

    Event

    Start End Other relation type Related Event
    1926 related >> participated in >> organized International Theatre Exposition
    1924 related >> contributed artistically to The International Exhibition of New Theatre Techniques
    related First German performance of “W.U.R.”
    1925 related >> contributed artistically to Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes
    1960 related >> contributed artistically to Visionary Architecture
    1947 related >> contributed artistically to Le Surréalisme en 1947
    1961 related >> participated in Internationaler Theaterbau
    1963 related >> participated in Austrian Bauzentrum
    1988 related >> was commemorated by Frederick Kiesler retrospective
    2017 related >> was commemorated by Frederick Kiesler exhibition

    Institution

    Start End Other relation type Related Institution
    1931 related >> was member of De Stijl Group
    1934 1957 related >> worked for/at The Juilliard School of Music
    1942 related >> designed Art of This Century
    related >> wrote for >> wrote articles for Shelter, a Correlating Medium for the Forces of Architecture
    related >> wrote for >> wrote articles for Architectural Forum
    related >> studied at Technical University of Vienna
    related >> studied at Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (Vienna)

    Person

    Start End Other relation type Related Person
    related >> acquainted with >> had contacts with >> had a meeting with Engele, Burkhard
    1963-08-08 related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with Holzmeister, Clemens
    1964 related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with Schwanzer, Karl
    related >> in a relationship with >> married to Kiesler, Lillian
    1964-10 related >> acquainted with >> had contacts with >> had a meeting with Schwanzer, Karl
    1960 related >> acquainted with >> had contacts with >> had a meeting with Hofmann, Werner
    1963-08-08 related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with Hofmann, Werner

    Place

    Start End Other relation type Related Place
    1926-02 related >> emigrated to New York, NY
    1890-09-22 Place of Birth Czernowitz
    1925 related >> lived in Paris

    Work

    Start End Other relation type Related Work
    1934 provided the stage design for Helen Retires
    1949 author of Manifeste du Corréalisme
    provided information for Never Call Retreat

    Label

    Label Start End Label type ISO Code
    Kiesler, Friedrich Jacob alternative name >> given name deu

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