Frederick Kiesler

Architect, theater designer, and sculptor Friederick Kiesler is best known in New York for his 1942 design of Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery. This drawing relates to Kiesler's "Endless House," a biomorphic structure that proposed a new sculptural model for architecture, which Kiesler conceived in the 1920s and revisited throughout his life. Although it was never realized, it is considered one of the most original architectural concepts of the twentieth century. This sheet belongs to a group of drawings Kiesler made in Paris in 1947 in which he experimented with the design for this project. The organic shapes relate the drawing to Surrealism, a movement to which Kiesler was associated.