Erika Giovanna Klien
| 1900 |
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born in Borgo di Val Sugano/Trentino |
| 1929 - 1925 |
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studies at the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule by Prof. Franz Cizek;
at the same time she attends a school for acting; works for a
kinetic puppets theater; attendance on many shows, makes designs
for magazins and toys |
| 1926 - 1929 |
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leader of the class for drawing at the Elisabeth-Duncan-School
in Kleßheim/Salzburg |
| 1929 |
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moves to New York |
| 1957 |
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Erika Giovanna Klien dies in New York |
Ausstellungen
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| 1976 |
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first retrospective of her works at the Galerie Pabst, Wien |
| 1986 |
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retrospective of her works at the Galerie Pabst,, München |
| 1987 |
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Exhibition with 250 works at "Museum des XX. Jahrhunderts",
Wien |
Picture Descriptions
ERIKA GIOVANNA KLIEN -
1. Erika Giovanna
Klien, Kopf der Tänzerin (Erwachen), 1923, oil/tempera and collage
on glass, signed. 25,5 x 22,5 cm.
2. Landscape, 1926. Sketch for the Kinetisches Marionettentheater
black charcoal on paper. 29.5 x 43.8cm.
Ref.: Katalog E.G.Klien, Staatsgalerie
Moderner Kunst München,
S.31, Abb. 10
3. Auto, 1926. design for the Kinetisches Marionettentheater,
black charcoal on paper. 44,6
x 63,4cm
Ref.: Katalog E.G.Klien, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst München,
S.30, Abb.9
4. Raumteilung, 1921/22, pencil and charcoal on transparent
paper, signed. 37 to 25.5 cm.
Ref.: Katalog 96 - Nr.3 (Christian Nebehay/ Wien)
5. Turbine, ca. 1930, black and white chalk on grey
hand-made paper, 31.5 x 48cm
6. Bird-Flight - 1933
Black charcoal on grey handmade paper, 45,1 x 30,4
References: E.G.Klien, Berhard Leitner, Hatje Cantz (2001), P.114
7. Disc, black and white chalk, 1932
on greenish hand-made paper. 29 x 48,7cm
8. Human
Figure - Movement Absttraction - Downfall
1938. Schwarze Kreide, Kohle auf Papier
- 63 x 48,3cm
9. NY Subway Racing Lights, oil on canvas, 1951, ca 77x47cm, dated and monogrammed.
10. ERIKA GIOVANNA KLIEN
Subway New York, Subway Forest, 1950, 24,0 x 15,7 cm, black india
ink, verso signed and dated
11. Self-portrait, 1924, chalk and pencil, 26 x 20,5
cm
12. Hand-Drill in motion - 1937
48 x 63cm, monogrammed, titled and dated
References: Catalogue 16 - Galerie Michael Pabst (P.40)
13. Turbine, black chalk, 1932,
on thick hand-made paper, 29 x 48cm
14. "Mann an der Kurbel" (unfinished) around
1935, pencil, watercolor on cardboard. 50 to 38.8 cm.
Ref: catalogue E.G.Klien, 1987, Nr. 207 (Exhibition
at 20er Haus, Wien)
15. ERIKA GIOVANNA KLIEN
ecstatic dance ca. 1935, 61,1 x 46,0 cm, watercolor on hand-made paper
16. ERIKA GIOVANNA KLIEN, 12 original linocuts, 1929 to 1932.
Munich, Gallery Pabst, 1986. Original linen case, 62 x 47 cm. The
first printing of the original linocuts by the leading protagonist
of Viennese Kineticism. The constructive-abstract pages in black and
white focus on themes associated with human movement, the flight of
birds, refractions of light, etc. The case was produced in a limited
edition of 50 numbered specimens stamped with artist's name. The original
linocut plates are currently kept in the Conservatory for the Applied
Arts, Vienna. The plates were given to the Conservatory under the
condition that no further prints would be made from them.
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