Adolf Loos a Private Portrait

SHIMMERING FISH
>

List of contents

Acknowledgements vii
Biography of Adolf Loos xi
Introduction xiii
Foreword 1
Adolf Loos—A Private Portrait 3–138
Notes 141
Beck Family History 153
Photographs 169
Afterword 189

About the author

Claire Beck Loos: Claire Beck Loos (b. 1904 Pilsen, Czechoslovakia; d. 1942 Riga) studied photography at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna, was a photographer and writer. She worked in photographer Hede Pollak's atelier in Prague. She married Adolf Loos and is best known for her portraiture of him. She died in the Holocaust.

Carrie Paterson: Carrie Paterson is an artist and writer who lives in Los Angeles. She writes for contemporary art journals and has her own publishing company, DoppelHouse Press. She is the grand-niece of Claire Beck Loos.

Janet Beck Wilson: Janet Beck Wilson is a writer and former Rock and Roll zine editor. She is the niece of Claire Beck Loos.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Beck Loos
• Assisted by: Carrie Paterson (Editor), Nicholas Saunders (Editor), Constance C Pontasch (Translation), Constance C. Pontasch (Translation), Nicholas Saunders (Translation)
• Publisher: Deirdre Braud
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2011
• EAN: 9780983254003
• ISBN: 978-0-9832540-0-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 184 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 325 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture