Bauhaus in Vienna? Design by Friedl Dicker and Franz Singer

Bauhaus in Vienna? Furniture design, interior design and architecture of the Vienna studio community of Friedl Dicker and Franz Singer The furniture, interior designs and buildings by Friedl Dicker and Franz Singer were exceptional in Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s. Both had attended Johannes Itten`s private art school in Vienna and followed him in 1919 to the newly founded Bauhaus in Weimar, where they studied until 1923. The artistically fruitful activity of their Viennese studio community, founded in 1925, ended with the budding National Socialism from 1934 onwards. Dicker and Singer and a large part of their clients - mostly Jewish - emigrated abroad. Their works created at the Bauhaus and those from their joint studio work were largely unexplored and almost forgotten. In this study, based on extensive source research in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Weimar and Vienna, the work of the studio community is analysed for the first time in the context of the Bauhaus and the Viennese architectural landscape. Starting with axonometry as a method of graphic representation, the multi-functionality of furniture and interior design, the tendencies to typify furniture and house construction, the use of geometric forms and materials such as tubular steel and plywood, as well as the colour scheme, an explicit reference to the Bauhaus can be attested. At the same time the work is the result of a continuous development for which the Viennese environment was also decisive. The volume, which is equipped with numerous previously unpublished illustrations, closes a gap in research on Viennese architectural history and the Bauhaus.