!!!Kiesler, Friedrich

Kiesler, Friedrich, b.  Cernovtsy, Ukraine (then Czernowitz), 
Sept. 22, 1890, d. New York (USA), Dec. 27, 1965, architect, 
designer, painter, stage designer, sculptor, visionary. From 1909-13 
studied at the University of Technology and the Academy of Fine Arts 
in Vienna, emigrated to the USA in 1926, where he taught at numerous 
universities. In the early 1920s K. worked on new theatre forms in 
Vienna ("Raumbuehne" - "Space Theatre", Architectural Theatre, 
"Endless Theatre") and later concentrated on visionary forms of living 
in general ("Space City", "bio-technology", "Correalism"). In 1950 
created the first model of his "Endless House", which was later 
expanded and changed and has been exhibited since 1960 in the Museum 
of Modern Art in New York; 1957-1965 K. collaborated with A. Bartos to 
create the "Shrine of the Book" for Jerusalem, which houses and 
displays the Dead Sea Scrolls. His literary and artistic estate 
(written documents and drawings) is housed in the private foundation 
of Friedrich and Lillian K. in Vienna, his sculptures in the archive 
of Lillian K. in New York. The F. Kiesler Prize for Art and 
Architecture is endowed with ATS 750,000 and has been awarded by the 
Republic of Austria every two years since 1998.

!Further works
Film Guild Theater, New York 1928/29; Project Space 
Theater for Woodstock, 1931 (has not been realised); innovations in 
the "Space house", premise, New York 1933; Caramoor Theater, Kantonah, 
New York, 1959; Project "Universaltheater", 1961 (has not been 
realised); meditation grotto in New Harmony, Indiana, 1963. -

!Publications
Debacle of the Modern Theater, 1926; Contemporary Art 
Applied to the Store and its Display, 1930; Inside the Endless House, 
Art, People, and Architecture, 1966.

!Literature
F. K., exhibition catalogue, Bochum/Vienna, 1975; D. 
Bogner, F. K. 1890-1965, 1988; B. Lesák, Die Kulisse 
explodiert. F. K. 1922-25, 1989; L. Philipps, F. K., 1989; 
D. Bogner, F. K. - Inside the Endless House, exhibition 
catalogue, Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, 1998.


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