„Sonderfall“ Angewandte. Die Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien im Austrofaschismus, Nationalsozialismus
und in der Nachkriegszeit
Book series Edition Angewandte
Edited by Bernadette
Reinhold and Christina Wieder
When the Vienna School of Applied Arts was elevated to the status of a “Reichshochschule”
in 1941, it saw itself as a “special case” in the National Socialist university system. Based on the latest research, this
study traces the eventful history of today’s University of Applied Arts Vienna under Austria’s fascist regime followed by
the “Anschluss” with Nazi Germany, and through the postwar years. This book provides comprehensive insights into the
Collection and Archive of the University of Applied Arts Vienna and examines the history of this Viennese art institution,
its classes and workshops, and its teachers and students. Questions are raised about political, cultural, and artistic turning
points as well as continuities amid the transformation of democratic and fascist structures that shaped the university from
1933 to 1955.
• Critical institutional history in a cultural-political context • Research contribution to Viennese Modernism and contemporary Austrian history • With
an extensive chronology, biographies of artists, and a lavishly illustrated, annotated catalog section with selected samples
(works of art, archival materials, sources)
Editor information
Bernadette Reinhold
and Christina Wieder, Collection and Archive, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Welcome Petra Schaper Rinkel, Rector, University of Applied Arts Vienna Cosima Rainer, Head of Collection and Archive, University
of Applied Arts Vienna
About the book – the editors and authors Bettina Buchendorfer, Sophie
Geretsegger, Silvia Herkt, Bernadette Reinhold, Christina Wieder
