The Private Adolf Loos: Portrait of an Eccentric Genius

Editor¿s Introductory Notes
Preface: Reflections of a Female Protege
Adolf Loos: A Short Biography
Claire Beck Loos: The Fractured Lens
Introduction to The Private Adolf Loos

Foreword by Claire Beck Loos
The Private Adolf Loos


Appendices
Adolf Loos¿ Circle, Some Context
Key to Names
Errata
Love Letters from Adolf Loos to Claire Beck
Photographs


Select Writings By Adolf Loos
Pottery
In Praise of the Present
Beethoven¿s Ears
Ornament and Education
Short Hair: Short or Long¿Masculine or Feminine?
Oskar Kokoschka


Acknowledgments

Claire Beck Loos (November 4, 1904 ¿ January 15, 1942*) was a Czechoslovakian photographer and writer. She was the third wife of early modernist Czechoslovak-Austrian architect Adolf Loos. She worked in the atelier of Hede Pollak in Prague and studied photography in Vienna at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt. In 1936, she published Adolf Loos Privat, a literary work of anecdotes about her ex-husband's character, habits, and sayings. Published by the Johannes-Presse in Vienna, the book was intended to raise funds for Adolf Loos's tomb, as he had died destitute three years earlier. She moved to Prague at the beginning of World War II and was deported to Theresienstadt at the end of 1941 and from there to Riga, Latvia, where she was killed in the Holocaust. *Her death date is thus only an estimate.