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This book reconsiders standard narratives regarding Austrian
emigres and exiles to Britain by addressing the seminal role of
Sigmund Freud and his writings, and the critical part played by his
contemporaries, in the construction of a method promoting humanized
relations between individual and society and subjectivity and
culture. This anthology presents groundbreaking examples of the
manners in which well-known personalities including psychoanalysts
Anna Freud and Ernst Kris, sociologist Marie Jahoda, authors Stefan
Zweig and Hilde Spiel, film director Berthold Viertel, architect
Ernst Freud, and artist Oskar Kokoschka, achieved a greater impact,
and contributed to the broadening of British and global cultures,
through constructing a psychologically effective language and
activating their emigre networks. They advanced a visionary
Viennese tradition through political and social engagements and
through promoting humanistic perspectives in their scientific,
educational and artistic works.
This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central
European emigre designers to twentieth-century American design and
architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in
debates concerning consumption and modernism's social agendas taken
by designers such as Felix Augenfeld, Joseph Binder, Josef Frank,
Paul T. Frankl, Frederick Kiesler, Richard Neutra, and R. M.
Schindler in Europe prefigured their later adoption or rejection by
American culture. They argue that emigres and refugees from fascist
Europe such as Gyoergy Kepes, Paul Laszlo, Victor Papanek, Bernard
Rudofsky, Xanti Schawinsky, and Eva Zeisel drew on the particular
experiences of their home countries, and networks of emigre and
exiled designers in the United States, to develop a humanist,
progressive, and socially inclusive design culture which continues
to influence design practice today.
This book reconsiders standard narratives regarding Austrian
emigres and exiles to Britain by addressing the seminal role of
Sigmund Freud and his writings, and the critical part played by his
contemporaries, in the construction of a method promoting humanized
relations between individual and society and subjectivity and
culture. This anthology presents groundbreaking examples of the
manners in which well-known personalities including psychoanalysts
Anna Freud and Ernst Kris, sociologist Marie Jahoda, authors Stefan
Zweig and Hilde Spiel, film director Berthold Viertel, architect
Ernst Freud, and artist Oskar Kokoschka, achieved a greater impact,
and contributed to the broadening of British and global cultures,
through constructing a psychologically effective language and
activating their emigre networks. They advanced a visionary
Viennese tradition through political and social engagements and
through promoting humanistic perspectives in their scientific,
educational and artistic works.
Jewish designers and architects played a key role in shaping the
interwar architecture of Central Europe, and in the respective
countries where they settled following the Nazi's rise to power.
This book explores how Jewish architects and patrons influenced and
reformed the design of towns and cities through commercial
buildings, urban landscaping and other material culture. It also
examines how modern identities evolved in the context of migration,
commercial and professional networks, and in relation to the
conflict between nationalist ideologies and international
aspirations in Central Europe and beyond. Pointing to the
production within cultural platforms shared by Jews and Christians,
the book's research sheds new light on the importance of
integrating Jews into Central European design and aesthetic
history. Leading historians, curators, archivists and architects
present their critical analyses further to 'design' the past and
push forward a transformation in the historical consciousness of
Central Europe. By reconsidering the seminal role of Central
European emigre and exiled architects and designers in shaping
today's global design cultures, this book further strengthens
humanistic, progressive and pluralistic cultural trends in Europe
today.
This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central
European emigre designers to twentieth-century American design and
architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in
debates concerning consumption and modernism's social agendas taken
by designers such as Felix Augenfeld, Joseph Binder, Josef Frank,
Paul T. Frankl, Frederick Kiesler, Richard Neutra, and R. M.
Schindler in Europe prefigured their later adoption or rejection by
American culture. They argue that emigres and refugees from fascist
Europe such as Gyoergy Kepes, Paul Laszlo, Victor Papanek, Bernard
Rudofsky, Xanti Schawinsky, and Eva Zeisel drew on the particular
experiences of their home countries, and networks of emigre and
exiled designers in the United States, to develop a humanist,
progressive, and socially inclusive design culture which continues
to influence design practice today.
A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden
years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna
have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been
involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identification within
Viennese modernism as a matter of Jews active fashioning of a new
language to convey their aims of emancipation along with their
claims of cultural authority. In this provocative reexamination of
the roots of Viennese modernism, Elana Shapira analyzes the central
role of Jewish businessmen, professionals, and writers in the
evolution of the city's architecture and design from the 1860s to
the 1910s. According to Shapira, these patrons negotiated their
relationship with their non-Jewish surroundings and clarified their
position within Viennese society by inscribing Jewish elements into
the buildings, interiors, furniture, and design objects that they
financed, produced, and co-designed. In the first book to
investigate the cultural contributions of the banker Eduard
Todesco, the steel tycoon Karl Wittgenstein, the textile
industrialist Fritz Waerndorfer, the author Peter Altenberg, the
tailor Leopold Goldman, and many others, Shapira reconsiders
theories identifying the crisis of Jewish assimilation as a primary
creative stimulus for the Jewish contribution to Viennese
modernism. Instead, she argues that creative tensions between Jews
and non-Jews-patrons and designers who cooperated and arranged
well-choreographed social encounters with one another-offer more
convincing explanations for the formation of a new semantics of
modern Viennese architecture and design than do theories based on
assimilation. This thoroughly researched and richly illustrated
book will interest scholars and students of Jewish studies, Vienna
and Viennese culture, and modernism.
An engaging look at how the middle classes of fin-de-siecleVienna
used innovative portraiture to define their identity During the
great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siecleVienna, artists of
that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict
artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and
society celebrities from the upwardly mobile middle classes. Viewed
as a whole, the images allow us to reconstruct the subjects'
shifting identities as the Austro-Hungarian Empire underwent
dramatic political changes, from the 1867 Ausgleich (Compromise) to
the end of World War I. This is viewed as a time when the
avant-garde overthrew the academy, yet Facing the Modern tells a
more complex story of the time through thought-provoking texts by
numerous leading art historians. Their writings examine paintings
by innovative artists such as Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and
Egon Schiele alongside earlier works, blurring the
conventionally-held distinctions between 19th-century and
early-20th-century art, and revealing surprising continuities in
the production and consumption of portraits. This compelling book
features works not only by famous names but also by lesser-known
female and Jewish artists, giving a more complete picture of the
time. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale
University Press Exhibition Schedule: The National Gallery, London
(10/09/13-01/12/14)
Gestalterinnen hatten einen entscheidenden Anteil an der
Entwicklung der Moderne im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit. Die
Publikation präsentiert neue Forschungen zu Designerinnen,
Keramikerinnen, Modeschöpferinnen, Grafikerinnen,
Gartenarchitektinnen, Fotografinnen, Kunsthistorikerinnen und
Mäzeninnen. An ihrem Beispiel wird gezeigt, wie angestammte
Rollenbilder in der Zwischenkriegszeit aufgebrochen wurden und
welch eminente Bedeutung diese Frauen für die Wiener Moderne
hatten. Sie setzten sich mit bestehenden Vorurteilen auseinander
und schufen neue visuelle Sprachen, um erfolgreich Karriere zu
machen. Gleichzeitig trugen sie zu einem kritischen Diskurs über
die Emanzipation der Frau bei. Zu den Gestalterinnen der Wiener
Moderne gehörten u.a. Emilie Flöge, Mathilde Flögl, Jacqueline
Groag, Fanny Harlfinger-Zakucka, Yella Hertzka, Else Hofmann, Hilda
Jesser, Maria Likarz, Madame d'Ora, Pauline Metternich-Sándor,
Bertha Pappenheim, Marie Reidemeister-Neurath, Lisl Weil, Vally
Wieselthier, Helene Wolf und Berta Zuckerkandl
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