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[Typewriter Art and Documentation 1925-1930] / Kiesler, Stefi aka Pietro de Saga., 1925

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Identifier: CC-57389-10000700

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Scope and Contents

Includes five reproductions of Kiesler's typewriter art works that she called 'Typo-PLastics' composed of letters and punctuation marks. Internet: Stephanie (Stefani, Stefi, Steffi ) Frischer was born in Austria in 1897. As a philology student. she married theater and art-exhibition designer, Frederick John Kiesler, in Vienna in 1920. In 1926, they emigrated to New York where Frederick obtained an architects license in 1930. Frederick Kiesler went on to become quite famous for his avant-garde designs. Steffi, meanwhile, became a librarian (in 1927) in the French and German section of the New York Public Library, a position she held for 32 years. Steffi Kiesler died in 1963. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1925

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (6 unbound pages (laser color printed) + 5 unbound pages (laser printed) + letter + card) ; pages 29 x 22 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

envelope same author

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

General: Title provided by Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Art Gallery. Nationality of creator: Austrian-American. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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