FRIEDL DICKER-BRANDEIS A MODERN ARTIST

Curated by Dr Linda Schädler, Head of the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, in cooperation with Cosima Rainer and Stefanie Kitzberger, Collection and Archive of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Robert Müller, Artist
The exhibition is under the patronage of the Austrian Ambassador to Switzerland, Maria Rotheiser-Scotti.

When it comes to the canon of art history, there are, to this very day, some artists who have fallen through the net. One of them is undoubtedly Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898 –1944). Even though she created an impressive and wide-ranging body of work in the first half of the twentieth century, comprising fine and applied arts as well as stage sets, architecture and design. Influenced by her studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, Johannes Itten’s private school and the Bauhaus in Weimar, Dicker-Brandeis worked in a variety of media and genres. Her work reflects her reform-oriented mindset as well as her interest in music and writing. What stands out, as ever, is her ability to straddle the formal aspects of these diverse media.

While Dicker-Brandeis’ work has been attracting increasing attention throughout Europe since the 1990s, it has never actually been presented in a solo exhibition in Switzerland. Now this gap can at last be bridged, thanks to the uniquely large holdings of her works in the Collection and Archive of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
The exhibition presents the full spectrum of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis’ art, illuminating her sojourns in Vienna and Berlin, in exile and as a deportee. Like so many of her generation, Dicker-Brandeis was swept from the history of modern art for
decades.
This is due in part to the destruction of her architectural work and to her persecution and murder as a left-wing, Jewish artist. This first ever solo exhibition in Switzerland places the focus on the outstanding quality of her artistic oeuvre.

The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue published by Verlag De Gruyter (DE / ENG). CHF 49.95 / EUR 49.95.

Curated by Dr Linda Schädler, Head of the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, in cooperation with Cosima Rainer and Stefanie Kitzberger, Collection and Archive of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Robert Müller, Artist

The exhibition is under the patronage of the Austrian Ambassador to Switzerland, Maria Rotheiser-Scotti.

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Graphische Sammlung
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Öffnungszeiten / Opening hours
Täglich / Daily 10:00 –16:45, Eintritt frei / free admission
Geschlossen / Closed: 7.4.–10.4.2023 (Ostern), 17.4.2023 ab / from 12:00
(Sechseläuten),
1.5.2023, 18.5.2023 (Auffahrt), 27.5.–29.5.2023 (Pfingsten).

Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Flirtendes Paar II, 1921–1923, Aquarell, Feder auf Papier, 36.4 × 35.4 cm, Kunstsammlung und Archiv der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Inv.-Nr. 12.209, Foto: Manuel Carreon Lopez, kunst-dokumentation.com (Ausschnitt)

Events

Opening

28. March 2023 - 18:00

ETH Zürich, Graphische Sammlung, Rämistrasse 101, E 52, 8092 Zürich

Duration

29. March 2023 - 18. June 2023

ETH Zürich, Graphische Sammlung, Rämistrasse 101, E 52, 8092 Zürich

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