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Female dancer, c. 1930
Female dancer
c. 1930
Chalk, pencil on paper
50.4×35.5 cm
Artists
- Erika Giovanna Klien
(Borgo Valsugana 1900–1957 New York)
Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Around 1920, the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts became the venue of a singular modernist experiment. Franz Čižek’s (1865–1946) class for “Ornamental Morphology” gave birth to Kineticism, a discipline in which movement is regarded as the quintessence of any type of creative expression. Reverberating in the paintings by Erika Giovanna Klien (1900–1957) and her colleagues at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts was the time-honored potential of ornaments to stretch out indefinitely. The key word was growth. Viennese Kineticism – much like Italian Futurism, with which it shares striking commonalities – broke the mold with optical rather than haptic elements.
Object data
- Artist/author
- Erika Giovanna Klien
- Title
- Female dancer
- Date
- c. 1930
- Art movement
- Classical Modernism
- Category
- Graphic work
- Material/technique
- Chalk, pencil on paper
- Dimensions
- 50.4×35.5 cm
- Credit line of the permanent loan
- Private collection
- Selection of Reference works
- Die Sammlung Schedlmayer. Eine Entdeckung, hrsg. Hans-Peter Wipplinger/Ivan Ristic, Wien 2021 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 10.09.2021-20.02.2022).
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