Fritzi Loew

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Friederike "Fritzi" Löw (born October 23, 1892 in Vienna ; † September 19, 1975 in Vienna) also Frida , married. Lazar was an illustrator , designer , graphic artist and employee of the Wiener Werkstätte .

Löw first attended the Vienna art school for women and girls from 1907 to 1910 . This was followed by artistic studies at the Vienna School of Applied Arts from 1912 to 1916 under Josef Hoffmann and Alfred Roller and Oskar Strnad .

From 1916 to 1921 she worked for the Wiener Werkstätte. In 1938 she emigrated to Brazil with stops in Denmark and England. There she worked as a furniture designer. In 1955 she returned to Vienna.

In the years 1915 to 1922 she illustrated stories and fairy tales with original lithographs, which were published as small-format "collector's editions" by Verlag Anton Schroll in Vienna. These include Eichendorff , Grillparzer's Der arme Spielmann , Jean Paul , Keller's Seven Legends , Mörikes Mozart on the trip to Prague and Adalbert Stifter as well as fairy tales by Andersen , Brentano and Hauff .

She developed further artistic works in the field of book design for the publishers Strache , Gerlach & Wiedling and the society for graphic industry .

Exhibitions

  • 1915 fashion exhibition
  • Art show 1920 Vienna
  • Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Paris 1925
  • Exhibition of Viennese women's art

literature

  • G. Fanelli, E. Godoli: Art Nouveau Postcards , Rizzoli, New York 1987, p. 351
  • Breuer, Gerda, Meer, Julia (Eds.): Women in Graphic Design , Jovis / Berlin, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 , pp. 503 and 505.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Fritzi Löw, m. Lazar. In: Hans Dichand (ed.), Michael Martischnig: Art Nouveau postcards , Harenberg Kommunikation GmbH Dortmund, page 169 f
  2. ↑ a b c d Werner J. Schweiger: Wiener Werkstätte. Art and craft 1903-1932 , Weltbild Verlag GmbH, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-86047-211-9 , page 264 f
personal data
SURNAME Loew, Fritzi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lazar, Fitzi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian designer and employee of the Wiener Werkstätte
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 19th September 1975
Place of death Vienna