Fredrick J. Kiesler (1890-1965) was a noted stage designer, architect, and writer, and became associated with the Surrealists
after his emigration to the United States. This collection consists of materials concerned with Kiesler's life and work including,
correspondence, magazine articles, exhibition catalogs and anouncements, press releases, bibliographies, dissertation and
book proposals, and ephemera.
The records are open for research and contain no restricted materials.
The Frederick J. Kiesler Papers are the physical property of The Museum of Modern Art. Literary rights, including copyright
belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business
resides with The Museum of Modern Art. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact
the Museum Archivist.
Frederick J. Kiesler Papers, [folder], The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
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Architectural Record - 3 Excerpts (Reprints) 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
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Architectural Record Architecture as Biotechnique, pp. 60-78
Study on the genetics of building design, pp. 60-69
The Mobile Home Library, pp. 70-75
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Sept. 1939 |
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Vogue Magazine Before Band Wagons, by Leo Lerner, p. 80, 140-142, l47, 148
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Oct. 1, 1903 |
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L'architecture d'Aujourd'hui - copyright, 1949 Correalism , pp. 1-23
Article dated by Kiesler, Sept. 20,1947, Paris
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Architectural Forum Design in Continuity by Kiesler, pp. 126-131
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Oct. 1957 |
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Leo Castelli - Ten Years - Exhibition catalogue Kiesler, 1960-61 season, (Jan.10; catalogue copyrighted 1967)
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The Ideal Theater; Eight Concepts 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
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Show Magazine Breaking the Straight Jacket, by Kiesler, p. 76, pp. 90-92
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March 1964 |
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Technische Hochschule Wien, Bericht des Studententeams, U.S.A 0ct. 3-23 1964, p. 75
Also mentioned p. 61.
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1964 |
| 10 |
The Continuous World Of Frederick J.Kiesler, by Raphael O. Roig University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Industrial Design. June 1, 1965
N.B.--many illustrations; quotations from magazine articles and Bibliography included.
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| 11 |
Kiesler- Creatures, Lands Capes Praries Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (includes Curriculum Vitae)
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May 6 - June 10, 1966 |
| 12 |
Art In America The Future: Notes on Architecture as Sculpture, by Kiesler, pp. 57-68
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May-June 1966 |
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Craft Horizons Book Review: Inside the Endless House, p. 58 by Kiesler.
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March- April, 1967 |
| 14 |
Howard Wise Gallery, Frederick Kiesler, exhibition catalogue 16 pp.; with cover
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April 12 - May 10, 1969 |
| 15 |
Arqultectura Mexico 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
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March 1966 |
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Notebook Contents: Dissertation Prospectus, by George Bedard For a study tentatively titled: Frederick J. Kiesler: Designer, Theorist, and Architect of the Theatre, pp.1-4
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1963 |
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Notebook Contents: 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
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| 16.3 |
Notebook Contents: 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
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Notebook Contents: Newspaper Clippings, from The New York Times And Miss Dlugoszewski Experiment!! -- A Lot, 3 pp. marked A, B, and C
Article on composer Lucia Dlugoszowski
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Sunday, March 7, 1971 |
| 16.5 |
Notebook Contents: Transcripts of Tape 6 Taped at 101 West 10th Street, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Composer
Recollections; pp. 1- 43 (with Mrs. Lillian Kiesler.)
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Apri124, 1970 |
| 16.6 |
Notebook Contents: Transcripts of Tape 7 At 56 Seventh Avenue, with Reinhold, Vivian and Frederick Heller, Marguerite Young, and Inez Garson; pp. 1- 12
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July 17, 1910 |
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Notebook Contents: Transctipts of Tape 8 At 56 Seventh Avenue, with Service men of building: "Lee", Atkins, and Charles Powell; pp. 1-17
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April 24, 1970 |
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Notebook 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.
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Design-Correlation-Towards prefabrication of Folk-spectacles by Frederick J. Kiesler Architectural Record
, pp. 93-96
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June, 1937 |
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Design's Bad Boy Architectural Forum (no author noted), pp. 88-91, 138,140
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Feb. 1947 |
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Pursuit of an Idea, Interview of Kiesler by Thomas H. Greighton Entire issue
Progressive Architecture, pp.-104-123
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July 1961 |
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Exhibition caption labels Kiesler one-man show at the SR Guggenheim Museum, Environmental Sculpture, May-June 1964
4 typewrritten pages
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| 22 |
Kiesler and Mondrian, Art into Life, by Kim Levin Art News, pp. 39-41, 49-50
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May 1964 |
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Frederick Kiesler: Precursor de l'Architecture Des Courbes by Michael Ragon La Galerie Des Arts, No. 20, pp. 26-28
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Nov. 1964 |
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Second Manifesto of Correalism, by Frederick J. Kiesler Art International, pp. 16-19.
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March 1965 |
| 25 |
Frederick Kiesler, Architekt 1890-1965 One catalog, 88 pages
Exhibition catalog from Galerie Nachst St.Stephan, Wien
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1975 |
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Patriotism and the American Home Typescript, 8 pages
Club panel, Frederick Kiesler, moderator
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March 27, 1958 |
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"UFO's and the Transformations of Man" in Gods of Aquarius By Brad Steiger (Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich: 1976), pp. 244-245; photocopy, 6 pages
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Architecture and its Double by Bernard Tschumi Architectural Design, No. 2/3, 1978, pp. 111-116
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Mitteilungen zur Ausstellung des Architeckten Frederick Kiesler Galerie Pabst, 1978 (Munich)
5 pages, photocopy; 2 typewritten pages & envelope
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Announcement of exhibition at Emmerich Gallery Villlage Voice, Frederick Kiesler, January 1, 1978; 1 leaf
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Invitation and 24-p catalog for Kiesler exhibition André Emmerich Gallery, Dec. 9, 1978-Jan.3, 1979
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Held, Roger L. Title page of dissertation, Endless Innovations: The Theories and Scenic Design of Frederick Kiesler 1 page
Held, Roger L. Proposal for book entitled, Endless Innovations...
See Museum Library for entire dissertation.
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| 33 |
Listing of theater productions by Frederick Kiesler
2 pages; prepared by Lillian Kiesler; revised 1977
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| 34 |
Internationale Ausstellung Neuer Theatertechnik (International Exhibition of Theater)
Catalog in six sections
Wien, 1924. (reprinted 1975)
Photocopies in 6 parts
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Der Sturm, 16 jahrgang By Ingenieur B.F. Dolbin on "Die Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertecknik in Wein
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July/Aug. 1925 |
| 36.A |
International Theatre Exposition/NY: Steinway announcement Organized by F.J. Kiesler and Jane Heap
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1926 |
| 36.B |
International Theatre Exposition/NY: Exposition announcement
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1926 |
| 36.C |
International Theatre Exposition/NY: Catalog (37 p.)
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1926 |
| 36.D |
International Theatre Exposition/NY: Material from Publicity Department
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1926 |
| 37 |
Checklist for Recent Acquisitions V [MoMA Exh. #903 June 5-Sept. 13, 1970] 3 pages, xerox
Includes one work by Kiesler
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| 38 |
Obituaries From The New York Times and the New York Post; 1 page, photocopy
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December 20, 1965 |
| 39 |
Copy of transcript prepared by Lucy Lippard for the Guggenheim's Kiesler exhibition Carbon of 17-p. transcript
This was not given to the Library by Mrs. Keisler, but by Lippard
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1964 |
| 40 |
Announcement of Kiesler exhibition at the Thomas Segal Gallery (Boston) 1 postal card
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1979 |
| 41 |
Cover & pages from catalog of Galerie Michael Pabst (Munich) 4 photocopied pages
Kunst Des XX. Jahrhunderts/ Two of Kiesler's works reproduced
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Coques Contre Boites by G. Luigi Neuf Magazine, No. 78, pp. 26-32
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Jan.-Feb. 1979 |
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Curriculitm Vitae, Theater Productions, Bibliography Of Frederick Kiesler 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.
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| 44.A |
Material related to exhibition at Architectural Association (London) Frederick Kiesler, 1890-1965; Drawings & Prints April-May 1977 Announcement in "Events List 1"
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Material related to exhibition at Architectural Association (London) Frederick Kiesler, 1890-1965; Drawings & Prints April-May 1977 Brochure to accompany exhibition, 4 p
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| 45.A |
Material relating to the reconstruction of the Art of This Century Gallery Photocopies; Exhibited as part of the Paris-NY-Paris show Centre Pompidou, 1977
Article by Cynthia Goodman from Arts, June 1977, pp. 90-91
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Material relating to the reconstruction of the Art of This Century Gallery Review by Jacques Michel in Le Monde 9 juin 1977
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| 46 |
Bibliography of writings on or by Frederick Kiesler 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
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| 47 |
Museum of Modern Art press release no. 14 2 p.; for Art Lending Service exhibition, The Stage Show
Show included 6 pieces by Kiesler
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March 1979 |
| 48 |
Hans Richter's comments on Keisler Translated into English, from his Koepfe und Hinterkoepfe (1967)
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Poem ("Ich/Her Calli Graf von Ink and Pelican…") 2 typed pages; photocopy
With inscription "Dedicated to Alcoply from Kiesler, 1962", by Kiesler?
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| 50 |
Invitation Exhibition of Kiesler's model of the Universal Theater and his theater drawings
Organized by the Harvard Theater Collection, May 1983
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Kiesler Correspondence 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
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