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Artwork: Diving Bird (1939)

Artist: Erika Giovanna Klien

1900 - 1957

Museum: Belvedere, Vienna, Inv.-Nr. 9547

Erika Giovanna Klien: Diving Bird. 1939. Oil on canvas. 111 x 96 cm.

This painting shows the dynamics of a plummeting seagull and dissolves representational images into abstract graphic forms.

In 2001 the painting had been donated to the "Österreichische Galerie", Vienna.

Artist Details

Erika Giovanna Klien was born on April 12, 1900 in Trentino, Italy and moved to New York City in 1929. There, she was a teacher at various New York colleges. Klien was the most talented pupil of Franz Cizek, who taught at the Vienna School of Decorative Arts (Kunstgewerbeschule). He developed Viennese kineticism, which uses elements of cubism and futurism to create dynamic compositions. Erika Giovanna Klien died in New York July 19, 1957.