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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 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 ...
15 de fev. de 2011 · The author, Claire Beck Loos, was a photographer and Adolf Loos’ last wife. She was born in 1904 in Czechoslovakia; her family were Jewish industrialists and important early clients of Loos, commissioning several apartments in Pilsen and works by the architect’s friend Oskar Kokoschka.
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31 de mar. de 2011 · The author, Claire Beck Loos, was a photographer and Adolf Loos' last wife. She was born in 1904 in Czechoslovakia; her family were Jewish industrialists and important early clients of Loos, commissioning several apartments in Pilsen and works by the architect's friend Oskar Kokoschka.
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Lively and often humorous vignettes by the last wife of the early Modern architect Adolf Loos are featured in an intimate biography by Claire Beck Loos. “Snapshots” of the last years of Loos’ life (1929–1933) reveal the personality and philosophy that helped shape Modern architecture in Vienna and the Czech lands.
17 de mar. de 2020 · 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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24 de jan. de 2013 · 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 later be acknowledged as some of his seminal designs.
