Designer · Austria / USA · 1890–1965
Friedrich Kiesler
Friedrich Kiesler (1890–1965) – Austrian-American architect and designer, creator of biomorphic furniture for Art of This Century (1942) and Endless House.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1890–1965
- Country
- Austria / USA
Friedrich Kiesler was born on 22 September 1890 in Chernivtsi and died on 27 December 1965 in New York. He studied at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna (1908–1909) and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1910–1912), without obtaining a degree. He developed the theory of Correalism; from 1937 to 1943, he was associated with the Laboratory for Design Correlation at Columbia University.
He designed the aluminium Two-Part Nesting Table (1935) and biomorphic furniture for Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century gallery (1942). MoMA exhibited a model of his Endless House in 1958–1959, and from 1957 to 1965 he worked with A.P. Bartos on the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. Exhibitions of his work were organised by, among others, the Whitney (1989), Centre Pompidou (1996) and MAK in Vienna (2016).
Key designs
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Two-Part Nesting Table
aluminium table
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Art of This Century furniture
biomorphic furniture
