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Giedion, Sigfried (Swiss furniture designer and author, 1888-1968)
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Note: Born 14 April 1888; died 9 April 1968. Sigfried Giedion received a diploma in engineering from the Technischen Hochschule in Vienna, Austria, and studied art history in Zurich, Berlin and Munich from 1916. In 1931 Giedion, Werner Max Moser, Max Ernst Haefeli, Carl Hubacher, Emil Roth and Rudolf Steiger were commissioned by the Schweizerischen Werkbund to decorate model houses and apartments at the Werkbundsiedlung Neubühl. In 1931 he founded the Wohnbedarf AG. with Werner Max Moser and Rudolf Graber and served as director of the company in 1934. Giedion was a professor at the Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zurich, Switzerland, from 1946. He also wrote several books amoung which include 'Space, Time and Architecture', 1941), 'Mechanization Takes Command' (1948) and 'The Eternal Present: The Beginnings of Art' (1962). Swiss architectural historian. |
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| founder of .... |
Wohnbedarf AG. |
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(Swiss furniture manufactory, 1931-ca. 1945 ) [500114133] |
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CIAM |
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(International architectural organization, 1928-1959) [500116220] |
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Graber, Rudolf |
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(Swiss artist, 1899-1958) [500045675] |
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Moser, Werner Max |
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(Swiss architect, interior designer, furniture designer, and city planner, 1896-1970) [500033652] |
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Wölfflin, Heinrich |
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(Swiss art historian, 1864-1945) [500230469] |
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Ho, Tao |
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(Hong Kong architect, designer, and teacher, born 1936) [500072471] |
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(Swiss furniture designer and author, 1888-1968) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Swiss furniture worker, director (administrator), art critic, author and architectural historian; born Prague (Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic), 1888; died Zurich (Switzerland), 1968) ..... [CCA]
(Swiss architectural historian, 1888-1968) ..... [AVERY]
(Swiss architectural historian, 1888-1968) ..... [Grove Art]
(Swiss art historian, 1888-1968) ..... [RKD]
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| Subject: ........ | [AVERY, CCA, Gallery Systems, Grove Art, RKD] |
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Canadian Centre for Architecture database
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CCA Authority File (1980-)
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Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n84186726
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Georgiadis, Sigfried Giedion (1993) xi-xii, 97-193
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Grove Art artist database (1989-)
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Grove Dictionary of Art (1996) XII, 601
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Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n84186726
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Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982)
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Mehlau-Wiebking and Rüegg, Biographen, Schweizer Typenmöbel (1989) 227
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Rassegna, 1986 Mar., v.8, no.25--NAF 3
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RKD Artists database (2000-) 389854
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Wikidata online (2000-) Q123143 | | | | | | | | | | | |
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