Adolf Loos a Private Portrait

Lively and often humorous vignettes by Claire Beck Loos, the last wife of the early Modern architect Adolf Loos, are featured in this intimate biography. "Snapshots" of the last years of Loos' life reveal the personality and philosophy that helped shape early Modern architecture in Vienna and the Czech lands. This is the first English edition of the book, which was originally published in 1936.Claire Beck Loos was a photographer and writer, born in 1904 in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. Her immediate and extended families were Jewish industrialists and some of Loos' first clients. This unusual, literary biography has also become a self-portrait of a vibrant young woman whose untimely death reverberates with the weight of history.