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Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos [1] (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈloːs]; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture.
English: Adolf Loos (1870–1933), Austrian architect and influential European theorist of modern architecture. Français : Adolf Loos (1870–1933), architecte autrichien, défenseur du dépouillement intégral dans l’architecture moderne.
Berlin art dealer Paul Cassirer saw promise in Kokoschka's works and launched the artist into the international circle. Around the same time, Herwarth Walden , a publisher and art critic who was introduced to Kokoschka by Loos , employed Kokoschka as an illustrator for his magazine Der Sturm . [ 2 ]
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The competition failed to produce a design that satisfied them, so in 1909 they gave the commission to Adolf Loos, who had been invited to submit a design but had not done so. The building was constructed by Pittel+Brausewetter , with Ernst Epstein as construction manager. However, although the city had accepted the plans, in 1910 the ...
The essay was written when Art Nouveau—known as Secession in Austria and which Loos had excoriated even at its height in 1900—was showing a new way forward for modern art. The essay was important in articulating some moralizing views, inherited from the Arts and Crafts movement , which would be fundamental to the Bauhaus design studio, and ...
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Hugo Haberfeld (November 24, 1875 – February 6, 1946), [1] was an Austrian Jewish art dealer, who owned Galerie Miethke in early 20th century Vienna. When Austria joined Nazi Germany in the 1938 Anschluss, Haberfeld fled to Paris.