Frederick J. Kiesler Papers
in The Museum of Modern Art Archives

Overview of the Collection

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Part 1 - April, 1937: Design Correlation, Animals & Architecture, pp. 87-92

Part 2 - May, 1937: Design-Correlation, pp. 53-60

Part 3 - Design-Correlation-Certain Date Pertaining to the Genesis of Design by Light (Photo-graphy), July, 1937, pp. 89-92, August 1937, part 2 of above, pp. 79-84

Architecture as Biotechnique, pp. 60-78

Study on the genetics of building design, pp. 60-69

The Mobile Home Library, pp. 70-75

Before Band Wagons, by Leo Lerner, p. 80, 140-142, l47, 148

Correalism , pp. 1-23

Article dated by Kiesler, Sept. 20,1947, Paris

Design in Continuity by Kiesler, pp. 126-131

Kiesler, 1960-61 season, (Jan.10; catalogue copyrighted 1967)

An exhibition of designs and models resulting from the Ford Foundation Program for Theatre Design.

Prepared and circulated by the American Federation of Arts, Jan. 1962- Jan. 1964

The Universal: an urban theater center, by Peter Larkin and Frederick J. Kiesler, pp. 91-108

Breaking the Straight Jacket, by Kiesler, p. 76, pp. 90-92

0ct. 3-23 1964, p. 75

Also mentioned p. 61.

University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Industrial Design. June 1, 1965

N.B.--many illustrations; quotations from magazine articles and Bibliography included.

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (includes Curriculum Vitae)

The Future: Notes on Architecture as Sculpture, by Kiesler, pp. 57-68

Book Review: Inside the Endless House, p. 58 by Kiesler.

16 pp.; with cover

93, p. 2, No. 93

Special issue devoted to the memory of Kiesler

Articles inside front cover, and following masthead page, marked 2 - Spanish and English versions

1. Dissertation Prospectus, by George Bedard (1963)
For a study tentatively titled: Frederick J. Kiesler: Designer, Theorist, and Architect of the Theatre, pp.1-4

2. Letter from Michael J. Griffith, Dept. of Speech and Dramatic Art
State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, to Mr. Bernard Karpel, MoMA Librarian, dated February 27, 1967; Regarding the sending to the Library of his dissertation on Kiesler; 1 page and overleaf

3. Dissertation Prospectus by Michael J. Griffith
Tentatively titled: Frederick J. Kiesler: Innovator in Theatre Architecture pp. 30-31; N.B.- last two pages are Bibliography

4. Newspaper Clippings, from The New York Times (Sunday, March 7, 1971)
And Miss Dlugoszewski Experiment!! -- A Lot, 3 pp. marked A, B, and C; Article on composer Lucia Dlugoszowski

5. Transcripts of Tape 6 (April 24, 1970)
Taped at 101 West 10th Street, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Composer; Recollections; pp. 1- 43 (with Mrs. Lillian Kiesler.)

6. Transcripts of Tape 7 (July 17, 1910)
At 56 Seventh Avenue, with Reinhold, Vivian and Frederick Heller, Marguerite Young, and Inez Garson; pp. 1- 12

7. Transcripts of Tape 8 (April 24, 1970)
At 56 Seventh Avenue, with Service men of building: "Lee", Atkins, and Charles Powell; pp. 1-17

Transcript of six original tapes, selected by Mrs. Lillian Kiesler and transcribed at The Museum of Modern Art (Education Department) in the summer of 1977

For study & reference purposes only

Mrs. Kiesler has the original tapes from which these transcripts were made.

Architectural Record , pp. 93-96

Architectural Forum (no author noted), pp. 88-91, 138,140

Entire issue
Progressive Architecture, pp.-104-123

Kiesler one-man show at the SR Guggenheim Museum, Environmental Sculpture, May-June 1964

4 typewrritten pages

Art News, pp. 39-41, 49-50

La Galerie Des Arts, No. 20, pp. 26-28

Art International, pp. 16-19.

One catalog, 88 pages

Exhibition catalog from Galerie Nachst St.Stephan, Wien

Typescript, 8 pages

Club panel, Frederick Kiesler, moderator

By Brad Steiger (Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich: 1976), pp. 244-245; photocopy, 6 pages

Architectural Design, No. 2/3, 1978, pp. 111-116

Galerie Pabst, 1978 (Munich)

5 pages, photocopy; 2 typewritten pages & envelope

Villlage Voice, Frederick Kiesler, January 1, 1978; 1 leaf

André Emmerich Gallery, Dec. 9, 1978-Jan.3, 1979

1 page

Held, Roger L. Proposal for book entitled, Endless Innovations...

See Museum Library for entire dissertation.

2 pages; prepared by Lillian Kiesler; revised 1977

(International Exhibition of Theater)

Catalog in six sections

Wien, 1924. (reprinted 1975)

Photocopies in 6 parts

By Ingenieur B.F. Dolbin on "Die Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertecknik in Wein

Steinway announcement (organized by F.J. Kiesler and Jane Heap)

Exposition announcement

Catalog (37 p.)

Material from Publicity Department

3 pages, xerox

Includes one work by Kiesler

From The New York Times and the New York Post; 1 page, photocopy

Carbon of 17-p. transcript

This was not given to the Library by Mrs. Keisler, but by Lippard

View PDF of folder 39

1 postal card

4 photocopied pages

Kunst Des XX. Jahrhunderts/ Two of Kiesler's works reproduced

Neuf Magazine, No. 78, pp. 26-32

Compiled 2/14/79 by Lillian Kiesler (Bibliography and theater productions are not included in this copy)

Title page lists where Kiesler microfilm and archives available

The full version of this bibliography by Mrs. Kiesler entitled Bibliography of Writings by or about Frederick Kiesler: biographical chronology, theatre productions, dated January 1, 1980 is in the Special Collections of MoMA Library.

Announcement in "Events List 1"

Brochure to accompany exhibition, 4 p

Photocopies; Exhibited as part of the Paris-NY-Paris show Centre Pompidou, 1977

Article by Cynthia Goodman from Arts, June 1977, pp. 90-91

Review by Jacques Michel in Le Monde 9 juin 1977

View PDF of folder 45

14" of 3x5 index cards (kept in separate file box)

Arranged chronologically by date of publication

Subject of article indicated for each entry - list of subject headings attached

2 p.; for Art Lending Service exhibition, The Stage Show

Show included 6 pieces by Kiesler

Translated into English, from his Koepfe und Hinterkoepfe (1967)

2 typed pages; photocopy

With inscription "Dedicated to Alcoply from Kiesler, 1962", by Kiesler?

Exhibition of Kiesler's model of the Universal Theater and his theater drawings

Organized by the Harvard Theater Collection, May 1983

Letters from:
4 ALS Galerie Maeght, 11/9/1947 and 1/22/1948

2 ALS A. Bloc, L'Architecture

1 ALS d'Aujourd'hui, 8/13/1947

1 ALS Madoura, 9/28/1962

Exhibition catalogue, Frederick Kiesler, 1890-1965 (London: The Architectural Association, 1989)

2 postcards

Advertisement and The New York Times review for Frederick Kiesler: Furniture Drawings, Jason McCoy Inc., December 18, 1990-February 2, 1991

This folder was added in 2023.

Correspondence from Lillian Kiesler to Carolyn Lachner regarding the donation of Galaxy to MoMA by Nelson A. Rockefeller and correspondence from Frederick J. Kiesler to Nelson A. Rockefeller regarding the installation of Galaxy.

Restricted material removed: Condition correspondence.

This folder was added in 2023.

Reviews of Kiesler's retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, January 18-April 16, 1989.

This folder was added in 2023.