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Jacques and Jacqueline Groag, Architect and Designer: Two Hidden Figures of the Viennese Modern Movement. By Ursula Prokop. Edited by Laura McGuire. Translated by Laura McGuire and Jonee Tiedemann. Los Angeles: DoppelHouse Press, 2019. Pp. 272. Cloth $39.95. ISBN 978-0999754436

Central European History, 2020, Vol.53 (3), p.674-676 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © Central European History Society of the American Historical Association, 2020 ;ISSN: 0008-9389 ;EISSN: 1569-1616 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0008938920000655

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    Jacques and Jacqueline Groag, Architect and Designer: Two Hidden Figures of the Viennese Modern Movement. By Ursula Prokop. Edited by Laura McGuire. Translated by Laura McGuire and Jonee Tiedemann. Los Angeles: DoppelHouse Press, 2019. Pp. 272. Cloth $39.95. ISBN 978-0999754436
  • Author: Long, Christopher
  • Subjects: Apartments ; Architects ; Architecture ; Houses ; Modernism ; Textile design ; World War I
  • Is Part Of: Central European History, 2020, Vol.53 (3), p.674-676
  • Description: Ursula Prokop, an independent architectural and design historian in Vienna, whose previous books include a very good history of pre–World War I commercial architecture in Vienna and an insightful examination of Jewish architects in the city, has performed a meticulous excavation of the lives of these two seminal figures in the Viennese modern movement, who, if not entirely lost to history, previously were mere peripheral actors. [...]in the 1930s, Groag emerged as a fully independent architect, producing an array of buildings, including single-family houses, workers’ apartment buildings, and a remarkably prescient and beautiful modernist gas station. On the one hand, both Groags contributed to the Wiener Wohnkultur, the direction and idea first developed by Oskar Strnad, Oskar Wlach, Hugo Gorge, Josef Frank, and others, which called for bright, colorful, and livable interiors—a mitigated modernism, in other words, that Frank would take with him to Sweden and that would later find worldwide acceptance through the IKEA household furnishings empire.
  • Publisher: New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0008-9389
    EISSN: 1569-1616
    DOI: 10.1017/S0008938920000655
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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