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The Other Legacy of Vienna 1900: The Ars Combinatoria of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2020
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This article positions multidisciplinary artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis at the center of a web that spans Vienna 1900, the Weimar Bauhaus, and interwar Vienna. Using a network metaphor to read her work, she is understood here as specialist of the ars combinatoria, in which she recombines genre and media in unexpected ways. She translates the language of photograms into painting, ecclesiastical subject matter into a machine aesthetic, adds found objects to abstract paintings, and paints allegories and scenes of distortion in the idiom of New Objectivity, all the while designing stage sets, costumes, modular furniture, toys, and interiors. While she has been the subject of renewed attention, particularly in the design world, much of her fine art has yet to be assessed. She used the idioms of twentieth-century art movements in unusual contexts, some of these very brave: in interwar Vienna, where she created Dadaistic posters to warn of fascism, she was imprisoned and interrogated. Always politically engaged, her interdisciplinary and multimedia approach to art bridged the conceptual divide between the utopian and critical responses to war during the interwar years. Such engagement with both political strains of twentieth-century modernism is rare. After integrating the interdisciplinary lessons of Vienna and the Weimar Bauhaus into her life's work, she shared these lessons with children at Terezín.
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32 Makarova, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, 14. She also designed and lithographed invitations for evenings starring Helge Lindberg and Emmy Heim. Hövelmann, “Bauhaus in Wien?,” 61. Nicholas Fox Weber has written a lively history that captures some of these ephemeral events, retrieved in part through interviews with Annie Albers in The Bauhaus Group (New York, 2009).
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47 The work reappears as a sculpture on the landing of a stairwell in her 1932 sketch for the home of August and Hilda Hériot, reproduced in Makarova, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, 98.
48 For a brief overview of Klee's teaching activities, see https://www.bauhaus100.com/the-bauhaus/training/curriculum/classes-by-paul-klee/, accessed 8 Dec. 2019.
49 “Da bricht ein neuer Skandal los, Ittenschüler contra Germanen, der ausserordentlich heftig wurde. Die Sache ist die: Die geistvoll-jüdische Gruppe Singer-Adler ist zu üppig geworden und hat leider auch Itten ernstlich beeinflusst. Mit diesem Hebel wollen sie das ganze Bauhaus in die Hand bekommen. Da lehnten sich die Arier begreiflicher Weise auf…. Es ist mir klar, dass Leute wie Singer-Adler nicht ans Bauhaus gehören und mit der Zeit fort müssen, wenn Ruhe eintreten soll.” Letter from Gropius to Lily Hildebrandt, Dec. 1920, in Isaacs, Reginald R., Walter Gropius: Der Mensch und sein Werk, vol. 1 (Berlin, 1983), 251Google Scholar, as cited in Wick, “Johannes Itten,” 32. Hövelmann transcribes “üppig” as “utopig” (utopian) in “Bauhaus in Wien?,” 48.
50 Also in the group: Franz Singer, Margit Téry-Adler, Lilli Gräf, and Anny Wottitz. The letter: “Wir verweisen auf unsere Bekanntmachung vom Dezember v. J., womit wir politische Betätigung im Bauhaus verboten haben. Wir sehen uns veranlasst, Ihnen unsere Missbilligung darüber auszusprechen, dass Sie in den Räumen des Bauhauses politische Propagandaschilder gelegentlich der Beerdigung der in der Gegenrevolution gefallenen Arbeiter angefertigt haben.” As cited in Berankova and Thürich, “Friedl Dicker-Brandeis,” 70.
51 “Ich suche die Einheit in der Verbindung, nicht in der Trennung dieser Lebensformen…. Das Bauhaus könnte zu einer Insel der Eigenbrötler werden, wenn es den Kontakt mit der Arbeit der übrigen Welt und ihrer Arbeitsart verlore.” As cited in Wick, “Johannes Itten,” 33.
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53 Paul Klee, “The Play of Forces in the Bauhaus,” as cited in Wingler, The Bauhaus, 50.
54 Itten resigns as of the end of the Wintersemester 1922/23. Wick, “Johannes Itten,” 34.
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56 Letter from Dicker to Martha Döberl, ca. 1925, with a discussion of a lost suitcase, an appointment, and other business matters that were hard to manage with such an itinerary: “On Sunday I received a telegram stating I should bring my materials to Hans Moller on the train. I have no idea what it is about. Was something discussed at the atelier?” As cited in Makarova, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, 92.
57 Photographs of configurations provided by the artists are in the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Collection and Archives. Metz & Co. had planned to manufacture it and had “finally” found a factory that could do it, according to a letter sent to Singer on 1 Apr. 1936. Hövelmann, “Bauhaus in Wien?,” 228.
58 Berankova and Thürich, “Friedl Dicker-Brandeis,” 70.
59 They created stage sets for plays by August Stramm, Henrik Ibsen, Robert Musil, Shakespeare and worked with Berthold Viertel's theater troupe and Berthold Brecht in the early 1920s. Eighteen costume sketches survived. Berankova and Thürich, “Friedl Dicker-Brandeis,” 69.
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64 The Montessori kindergarten in the Goethehof, Vienna 22, Shüttaustrasse 1–39, 1930 was damaged in Feb. 1934 and later destroyed. It was illustrated in Österreichische Bau- u. Werkkunst 8 (1932): 65. A private commission with a glass cylinder staircase in front and long horizontal façade was the Guesthouse Auersperg-Hériot, Vienna 2, Rustenschacherallee, 1932–4 (destroyed). The Tennis Club Heller in Hietzing, 1928, was an avant-garde design. Plakolm-Forsthuber, “Frauen als Pioniere,” 203–4.
65 The album is featured in Schwarz, Spitaler, and Wikidal, eds., Das Rote Wien. See also Hövelmann, “Bauhaus in Wien?,” 226.
66 Plakolm-Forsthuber, “Frauen als Pioniere,” 203–6. Otto, “Passages,” 236n20 also mentions a similar dynamic in the Singer Archive at the Victoria and Albert Museum—Singer is often named, Dicker rarely, but some of the works are by her.
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68 This, in spite of the fact that one of the most entrenched Berlin Dadaists, Raoul Hausmann, came from Vienna. Ralf Burmeister, “Dada Berlin and Perhaps Austria's ‘Greatest Experimenter,’” in Husslein-Arco et al., Vienna-Berlin, 242.
69 For good full-page illustrations, see Peters, Before the Fall, plates 209–13 and Husslein-Arco et al., Vienna-Berlin, plates 273–78. The original posters are lost but reproductions are preserved at the Bildarchiv, mumok (museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien) and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Collection and Archives.
70 In 1942, Dicker-Brandeis wrote a postcard to her friend Hilde Kothny from the deportation point to Terezín, Gradetz Kalau: “My dear, all is going, contrary to the expectations, well. It is the usual story: some are selected for shearing, while others are ordered to shear. I turned out more courageous than I had supposed. I had thought my tear glands were on my shoulders, but learned—they are not there either.” Makarova, From Bauhaus to Terezín, 21.
71 “SO SIEHT ES AUS, MEIN KIND, DIESE WELT. DA WIRST DU HINEINGEBOREN. DA GIBT ES WELCHE ZUM SCHEEREN BESTELLT UND WELCHE DIE WERDEN GESCHOREN. SO SIEHT SIE AUS MEIN KIND, IN DER WELT IN UNSERN UND ANDERN LÄNDERN UND WENN DIR, MEIN KIND, DIESE WELT NICHT GEFÄLLT DANN MUST DU SIE EBEN ÄNDERN.” Angelika Romauch, “Friedl Dicker: Marxistische Fotomontagen 1932/33. Das Verfahren der Montage als sozial-kritische Methode” (MA thesis, University of Vienna, 2003).
72 Franz Singer testified on her behalf, claiming that she could not have fabricated the passports, because she “does not know how to draw a straight line.” Makarova, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, 21.
73 Cornelia Cabuk, “‘Magical’ Objectivity in Vienna and Austria,” in Vienna-Berlin, 343–48, 344.
74 From Hronov, undated. For the longer quotation in German see Berankova and Thürich, “Friedl Dicker-Brandeis,” 83.
75 Undated letter from Dicker-Brandeis to Hilde Kothny, Hronov, in Makarova, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, 26.
76 Berankova and Thürich, “Friedl Dicker-Brandeis,” 79.
77 Wick, “Johannes Itten,” 13–16.
78 Laven, Rolf, “‘First Class’ Werke der Cizek'schen Jugendkunstklasse auf der Wiener Kunstschau 1908,” in Gustav Klimt und die Kunstschau 1908, eds. Husslein-Arco, Agnes and Weidinger, Alfred (Vienna, 2008), 78–84Google Scholar. This is not to say that Itten learned about collage techniques in Vienna; he had studied with Adolf Hölzel in Stuttgart from 1913, where he practiced creating abstract collages out of torn paper and fabric scraps. Wick, “Johannes Itten,” 16.
79 From the memoirs of Hilde Kothny, as quoted in Makarova, From Bauhaus to Terezín, 21.
80 Anna Sladkova, “Memoirs on Friedl Dicker.” Nachod, 1985, Archives of the Jewish Museum, Prague, as cited in Makarova, From Bauhaus to Terezín, 21.
81 Arcade Gallery, London, Aug. 1940. A copy of the title page is illustrated in Makarova, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, 26.
82 Hilde Kothny in interview series with Elena Makarova, Geneva, Moscow, Vienna, 1988–99, as cited in Makarova, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, 154.
83 As quoted and translated in Makarova, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, 13. Dicker-Brandeis also used mathematical metaphors in her private letters to Hilde Kothny. For one example, see Berankova and Thürich, “Friedl Dicker-Brandeis,” 82.
84 Makarova, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, 28.
85 “Friedl dyed sheets various colors. She had decided right away that they would be used in plays—a green one, thrown over a group of children, would be a forest.” Hilde Kothny, “Memoirs on Friedl Dicker,” Taranto 1986, Archives of the Jewish Museum of Prague, as cited in Makarova, From Bauhaus to Terezín, 5.
86 Helga Pollak Kinsky, personal communication with Linnie Wix, 6 Feb. 2006 as cited in , Wix, “Aesthetic Empathy in Teaching Art to Children: The Work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis in Terezin,” Art Therapy 26, no. 4 (2009): 154Google Scholar.
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