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Title: Emil Pirchan: Universal Artist
Author: BEAT STEFFAN (ED)
Format: HARDCOVER
Imprint: NIMBUS, ZURICH
Price: $113.00
Publishing status: Active
Emil Pirchan (1884-1957), born in Brno, started his artistic career as a student of the Viennese art
nouveau architect Otto Wagner, then switched to interior design. Soon he broadened his field into
commercial art with the focus on poster art and in 1913 he founded a school in Munich for applied
arts and set decoration whose promising development got interrupted by the First World War. As the
head of stage design at the Bavarian State Theatre Pirchan caused a sensation with revolutionary
expressionistic stage decorations. During the time of National Socialism he increasingly withdrew
into writing and published diverse monographs and relevant works about theatre arts and dance.
368 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, hb, German/English
ISBN: 9783038500438