Biography

Frederick J. Kiesler is born on September 22 in Czernowitz (then a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but now in Ukraine).

Kiesler studies in Vienna at the Technical University and at the Academy of Fine Arts.

On August 19 Kiesler marries the philology student Stephanie
Frischer in the Vienna Synagogue.

Kiesler designs and builds the Film Guild Cinema in New York.

He obtains the architects licence from the New York State and
establishes the Planners Institute Inc.

Kiesler wins the competition for the Woodstock Theater, however the
project is never built.

Kiesler participates in the exhibition "Modern Architecture: International Exhibition" curated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russel Hitchcock. He becomes member of the AUDAC and regularly meets with the group. His contact with the Surrealism become more intense and starts a long-time friendship with Arshile Gorky. 

Kiesler builds a full-scale model of the Space House a one story single-family dwelling. To complete this project, Kiesler uses biomorphic forms for the first time. Subsequently, he works on numerous drafts for furniture design and was commissioned to furnish the apartment of Marguerita and Charles Mergentime.

He establishes the Laboratory for Design Correlation at the School of Architecture at Columbia University and starts working on the Vision Machine as well as on the Mobile Home Library. Subsequently Kiesler focuses on his holistic theory of Correalism.

Invited by the arts collector Peggy Guggenheim, Kiesler develops
radical new exhibition methods for the objects at her new Art of This
Century Gallery.

Kiesler designs the Surrealist Bloodflames 1947 exhibition at the Hugo Gallery and the installation for the "Exposition Internationale du
Surréalisme" at the Gallery Maeght in Paris. He writes the "Manifeste du Corréalisme" which is published in June in "L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui". From that time on, Kiesler works on painting and sculpture.

The Sidney Janis Gallery shows painted Galaxies in its first one-artist exhibition.

In collaboration with his partner Armand Bartos, Kiesler begins conceptual work on The Shrine of The Book in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The World House Gallery, a project by Kiesler & Bartok, opens in New York.

The Museum of Modern Art shows a large model of the Endless House from 1958/59 in the exhibition Visionary Architecture.

One-man show of Shell Sculptures and Galaxies at the Leo Castelli Gallery.

He begins the large environmental sculpture Us-You-Me and assembles journal notes and other writings for Inside the Endless House, a book of his recollections published posthumously by Simon & Schuster in 1966. Stefi dies on September 3.

On March 26, Kiesler marries Lillian Olinsey. Works on his sculpture Bucephalus.

In April, Kiesler flew to Jerusalem for the opening ceremonies of The Shrine of The Book. On December 27, Frederick Kiesler dies in New York.