Frederick John Kiesler Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Frederick John Kiesler
A Visionary of Space and Form Frederick John Kiesler was an Austrian-American architect, sculptor, painter, designer, scenographer, author, lithographer, theatre designer, and writer. Born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, he studied at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna and later attended painting and printmaking classes at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. After moving to New York City in 1926, he became a naturalized American citi
zen. His diverse career spanned various disciplines, from designing multimedia productions for the theater to developing complex architectural concepts. His architectural and design work included the Film Guild Cinema in New York City and the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem, which he designed with Armand Phillip Bartos. Kiesler was also known for his "polydimensional" drawings and his theory of "correalism," which explored the relati…