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Felicitas von Lovenberg of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung calls A Man in Love Walser's "most tender, inexorable and conciliatory" novel. [1] Andreas Merkel of Der Spiegel says its greatest strength is its narrative tone, which allows Walser to have Goethe ponder about his genitals in front of a mirror as well as quote the "Marienbad Elegy" in full, and make it work as an organic whole. [2]
His father Adolf Loos was a German stonemason who died when Loos was nine years old. [4] His mother, Marie Loos, was a sculptor who later carried on the masonry business after her husband's death. Young Adolf Loos had inherited his father's hearing impairment and was significantly handicapped by it throughout his life, contributing to his ...
He took as one of his examples the tattooing of the "Papuan" and the intense surface decorations of the objects about him—Loos says that, in the eyes of western culture, the Papuan has not evolved to the moral and civilized circumstances of modern man, who, should he tattoo himself, would either be considered a criminal or a degenerate.
In 1936, Loos published Adolf Loos Privat, a literary work of "razor-sharp anecdotes" about her ex-husband's character, habits, and sayings that was illustrated with family photographs. [3] Published by the Johannes-Presse in Vienna, the book was intended to raise funds for Adolf Loos's tomb, as he had died destitute three years earlier.
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 ...
A Man in Love or Man in Love may refer to: A Man in Love, a 2008 novel by Martin Walser; A Man in Love, novel by Karl Ove Knausgård; A Man in Love, a French-Italian-British drama film; Man in Love (2014 film), a South Korean romance drama film "A Man in Love", 1972 single by George Perkins
He was then appointed as a consultant to the Vienna city authorities working at the municipal Siedlungsamt together with Adolf Loos. In 1920 he launched the journal Der Siedler with Otto Neurath . This journal had a circulation of 40,000 and between 1920 and 1922 it played a key role in coordinating the settlers movement.
In his book Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture, writer Joseph Masheck draws parallels between Loos's mausoleum and the work of later post-modern architects and artists including the brick installations of Carl Andre, the "gray prisms" of sculptor Robert Morris and the sculptures of Tony Smith, the last of which was an influence on I. M. Pei. [1]