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Adolf Loos
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement. His controversial views and literary contributions sparked the establishment of the Vienna Secession movement and postmodernism.
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culture · Austrian and Czechoslovak architect and theorist of modern architecture · architect · writer · architecture critic · designer · photographer · teacher · art theorist · essayist · art collector · furniture designer · also Adolf Loos, Adolph Loos, Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos, Loos
Born 10 December 1870 · Died 23 August 1933 · Q44323
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2025· 1 entry
Artnet news: Adolf Loos, a table for Café Museum, designed in 1898, executed by Gebrüder Thonet, Vienna
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2023· 2 entries
MutualArt.com: Adolf Loos, a hanging lamp “Dodekaeder”, cf. Friedrich Otto Schmidt, Vienna, c. 1902/03, circa 1930
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insider.si.edu: Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, and the road to modern architecture / Werner Oechslin ; translated by Lynette Widder
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2015· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: Review of ‘Ways to Modernism: Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, and Their Impact’
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2008· 1 entry
The original case record was rediscovered and confirmed the accusation
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1936· 1 entry
“s character, habits and sayings, published by the Johannes-Presse in Vienna in 1936. The book was intended to raise funds for Loos”
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1933· 2 entries
Died 1933-08-23.
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“If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.”
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1929· 1 entry
Married writer and photographer Claire Beck
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1928· 1 entry
Loos was disgraced by a pedophilia scandal in Vienna
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1922· 1 entry
Loos submitted a building design for the Chicago Tribune Tower Competition, where his design proposal followed a Doric column as the building's top, known as the Column Tower proposal
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1920· 1 entry
Had a brief collaboration with Frederick John Kiesler, an architect, theater and art-exhibition designer
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1919· 1 entry
When he was 49, he married 20-year-old Austrian-born Elsie Altmann, a dancer and operetta star and daughter of Adolf Altmann and Jeannette Gruenblatt
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1918· 1 entry
Loos was diagnosed with cancer
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1904· 1 entry
And was influenced by the cubic architecture of the Greek islands
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1903· 1 entry
And included advertisements for 'English' clothing
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1900· 1 entry
Attacked the Vienna Secession, at a time when the movement was at its peak
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1898· 1 entry
And situated right across from the Habsburg city residence Hofburg Palace
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1896· 2 entries
Became involved in Chicago's architectural scene
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Rejected the style and advocated a new, plain, unadorned architecture
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1889· 1 entry
And changed to architecture by studying at Dresden University of Technology from 1890 to 1893
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1884· 1 entry
Loos began his studies at the Stiftsgymnasium Melk for only a few months after failing an exam
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1870· 1 entry
Born 1870-12-10.
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