Jacques and Jacqueline Groag, Architect and Designer
Jacques and Jacqueline Groag, Architect and Designer: Two Hidden Figures of the Viennese Modern Movement Ursula Prokop DoppelHouse Press , June 2019 Hardcover | 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches | 272 pages | English (Translated from German by Jonee Tiedemann and Laura McGuire) | 978-0999754436 | $39.95 Publisher Description : Ursula Prokop’s meticulous history restores Jacques and Jacqueline Groag to their rightful places in the pantheon of Viennese Modernists. Prokop explores their individual careers in Vienna and Czechoslovakia, their early collaborations in the 1930s, their lives as Jewish émigrés, and the couple’s unique contributions in Britain for postwar exhibitions, monuments, furniture and textile design. In Vienna, the Groags studied and worked within a circle of notables including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Adolf Loos, Paul Engelmann, Josef Hoffmann, and Franz Čižek, as well as others at the Wiener Werkstätte. Jacques Groag’s solutions to Vienna’s housing crisis, his painterly use ...