Unwritten Biographies: Brüche und Kontinuitäten. Künstler*innen der Angewandten Wien. Fractures and Continuities. Artists of the Angewandte Vienna 1933 - 1955

(English / German)
By the time of the Anschluss in 1938, nothing had been left unchanged at the School of Applied Arts, now the University of Applied Arts Vienna – “die Angewandte”. Jewish and politically ‘undesirable’ teachers and students had been expelled, and countless promising careers had come to an abrupt end. Their escape routes, some spanning several continents, led to exile in the USA, England, Israel, South America, or Australia. Others, however, continued to work successfully thr...