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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.