Join the Austrian Cultural Forum New York for a panel discussion with Austrian art historian Dr. Bernadette Reinhold and German historian Dr. Marcel Bois, moderated by Dr. Stephanie Buhmann, Head of Visual Arts, Architecture and Design at the ACFNY. The conversation focuses on Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000), widely recognized as one of Austria’s first female architects, a pioneer in social architecture, the inventor of the Frankfurt Kitchen, a women’s rights activist, and a resistance hero against Nazi dictatorship. The discussion takes place on the occasion of the release of the book Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architecture. Politics. Gender, edited by Dr. Bernadette Reinhold and Dr. Marcel Bois.

The event is being held in cooperation with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

Panelists
Dr. Bernadette Reinhold is a historian of art and architecture, director of the Oskar Kokoschka Center, and senior scientist at Collection and Archive at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s estate is located. Her publications, research projects, and teaching on history of architecture and urban planning, modern art, and cultural policy in Austria is repeatedly accompanied by exhibitions.

Dr. Marcel Bois is a historian and works at the Research Centre of Contemporary History in Hamburg (FZH). His specialty areas are the history of Communism, labor history, and Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s biography.

Thursday October 19, 7:00 pm
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
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