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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Claire_Beck_LoosClaire Beck Loos - Wikipedia

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   Claire Beck was born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia in 1904, one of three children of Olga (Feigl) Beck and Otto Beck. [1] : xvi. Claire became engaged to Adolf Loos (1870–1933) after he invited the Beck family to see a Josephine Baker performance in Vienna in the spring of 1929. [2] They were married in Vienna on 18 July of the same year over her ...

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   • Spouse: Adolf Loos (1929–1932)

   • Occupation: writer, photographer

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3. www.harvarddesignmagazine.org › articles › tuningTuning into the Void: The Aurality of Adolf Loos’s Architecture

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   Claire Beck Loos, his third wife, published her memoirs, Adolf Loos Privat, in 1936 to help raise funds for her ex-husband’s tombstone. In it, she describes his erratic behavior—his spontaneous marriage proposals to his three wives, his tendency to interject in conversations with an unrelated idea, and his habit of abruptly standing up ...

4. www.amazon.com › Private-Adolf-Loos-PortraitThe Private Adolf Loos: Portrait of an Eccentric Genius

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   Mar 17, 2020 · Lively, snapshot-like vignettes form an intimate, literary portrait of the infamously eccentric and influential modern architect Adolf Loos. Written by Loos’ third wife, the photographer Claire Beck (1904–1942), these often humorous, short episodes reveal Loos’ temperament and philosophy during the last years of his life (1928–1933).

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   Who was Claire Beck Loos?

   • Claire Beck Loos, self-portrait, late 1920s. (Courtesy: Study and Dokumentation Centrum, Villa Müller, Prague, Czech Republic) Claire Beck Loos (4 November 1904 – 19 January 1942) was a Czechoslovakian photographer and writer. She was the third wife of early modernist Czechoslovak-Austrian architect Adolf Loos .

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   Who is Adolf Loos wife Claire Beck?

   • Claire Beck Loos (4 November 1904 – 19 January 1942) was a Czechoslovakian photographer and writer. She was the third wife of early modernist Czechoslovak-Austrian architect Adolf Loos . Claire Beck was born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia in 1904, one of three children of Olga (Feigl) Beck and Otto Beck. : xvi

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   Who is Claire Beck?

   • Claire Beck was born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia in 1904, one of three children of Olga (Feigl) Beck and Otto Beck. : xvi Claire became engaged to Adolf Loos (1870–1933) after he invited the Beck family to see a Josephine Baker performance in Vienna in the spring of 1929.

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   Did Baker ever see Loos's design?

   • We do not know whether Baker ever saw Loos’s design (in the form of plans, as a model, or in the famous photograph of the model taken by Martin Gerlach in 1930). According to Elsie Altmann Loos, the model was exhibited in the Salon d’Automne in 1928.

   Tuning into the Void: The Aurality of Adolf Loos’s Architecture

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6. doppelhouse.com › adolf-loosAdolf Loos - DoppelHouse

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   Adolf Loos – A Private Portrait is a highly personable and ultimately a sorrowful book about Loos in his declining years. This translation of a little known biographical sketch by his wife Claire Beck Loos provides a host of important insights into the man, his intellectual circle, and most importantly his approach to the practice of ...

7. www.sahscc.org › site › indexSociety Of Architectural Historians/Southern California Chapter

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   Adolf Loos: A Private Portrait was written by Claire Beck Loos, the Viennese architect's third wife. Claire, a photographer, a beauty, and a secular Czech Jewess, married-against her parents' wishes-an aging genius, broken in health and hopeless with money, but tender, impulsive, and unforgettable. They wed in 1929, when she was 24 and he was 58.

8. www.amazon.com › Private-Adolf-Loos-PortraitThe Private Adolf Loos: Portrait of an Eccentric Genius

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   Apr 7, 2020 · Her book "Adolf Loos Privat" was published in 1936 with Vienna's Johannes-Presse (part of Otto Nirenstein's Neue Gallery), reprinted in 1985 and 2007. "Adolf Loos - A Private Portrait" (DoppelHouse Press 2011) is the first English translation of her book. Claire Beck Loos was killed in the Holocaust in 1942.

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9. www.west86th.bgc.bard.edu › bookreviews › adolf-loosAdolf Loos: A Private Portrait – W86th - Bard College

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   Jan 24, 2013 · Adolf Loos: A Private Portrait. Claire Beck Loos, edited by Carrie Paterson. Los Angeles: DoppelHouse Press, 2011. 200 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $24.95. ISBN 978-0-983-25400-3. When Claire Beck married Adolf Loos in the summer of 1929, he was nearly sixty and in fading health. He was still working. In fact, he was then engaged with what would ...