Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
Friedl Dicker- Brandeis, also Friedl Dicker, Friedericke Dicker-Brandeis and Friederike Dicker- Brandeis and in Czech BEDRISKA ( Friederike ) Brandeisova ( born July 30, 1898 in Vienna, † October 9, 1944 in Auschwitz ) was an Austrian painter, artisan and interior designer. She was Jewish.
Life
Friedl Dicker was the only child of paper goods - seller Simon Dicker (1857-1942) and his wife Caroline, born Fanta ( 1865-1902 ). Her stepmother was born in Charlotte Dicker Schön ( 1866-1943 ). She grew up in a Jewish middle-class family and attended from 1909 to 1912, the Vienna public school for girls. From 1912 to 1914 Friedl Dicker graduated from the Graphic Arts Research Institute in Vienna a lesson in photography and reproduction technology. After that she attended from 1914 to 1916, the textile class of School of Applied Arts Vienna. There, the art teacher Franz Cizek was (1865-1946) to their teachers. From 1916 to 1919 Friedl Dicker studied at the private art school of Johannes Itten ( 1888-1967 ) in Vienna. As Johannes Itten took a teaching position at the Bauhaus in Weimar in October 1919, were waiting for him there also some of his Viennese students, including Friedl Dicker, Franz Singer ( 1896-1954 ), Margit Tery and Anny Wottitz.
In Weimar had Friedl Dicker contact with numerous artists such as Walter Gropius (1883-1969), Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943) and Paul Klee (1879-1940 ). Together with Franz Singer, she designed 1920-1924 numerous costumes and sets for theater in Berlin and Dresden. After the end of their studies in September 1923, she founded with Franz Singer in Berlin- Friedenau workshops visual arts and from 1926 in Vienna Community Atelier Singer & Dicker. There Friedl Dicker worked mainly in the field of interior design. The joint work with Franz Singer have been awarded and shown among others in the exhibition Modern interiors in the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts.
Private, the relationship between the two artists was complicated and fraught with conflict. Franz Singer was married in 1921 to actress Emmy Heim ( 1885-1954 ). He had with Friedl Dicker, a long -standing love affair, in which she was repeatedly pregnant. However, since he did not want a child with her, she was forced to have an abortion every time. In 1931, the two parted ways and Friedl Dicker opened his own studio in Vienna.
Friedl Dicker was a member of the Communist Party since 1931. In 1934 she was arrested for communist activities. After her release in 1936 she emigrated to Prague. There she married in April 1936 her cousin Pavel Brandeis and was Czech citizen. In Prague she continued her artistic and interior decoration works with Greta Bauer Cheerful, a former Bauhaus colleague continued. 1938 attracted Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and her husband after Hronov. Both worked in the textile factory B. Spiegler & Sons.
In September 1942, the couple was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto. Here succeeded Friedl Dicker- Brandeis to organize still drawing classes for children. In 1944 the couple was transferred to the concentration camp Auschwitz. There Friedl Dicker- Brandeis was gassed with 46 years. Her husband Pavel Brandeis survived the Holocaust.
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→ List of Works in the article Franz Singer (architect)