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New BIAAS Austro-Americana Blog: Hölzlhuber’s America: An Austrian Artist’s Depiction of Antebellum Travel in Wisconsin and Beyond, 1856-1860 By Janine Yorimoto Boldt and Kristina E. Poznan In our special holiday newsletter last year, frequent contributor Kristina E. Poznan traced the linzer cookie’s origins in the United States to Austrian Franz Hölzlhuber. (According to legend, Hölzlhuber […]

BIAAS Austro-Americana Blog Series Rosa Wien: Gay Rights, Schlager and Self-Exile: 1918-1938 Historian Casey J. Hayes, a 2021 Fulbright-Botstiber Scholar in Austrian-American Studies, probes the unique migration of cabaret culture from Berlin to Vienna to the United States (the latter destination only for those fortunate to secure a visa) in this extraordinary blog-article. In the […]

BIAAS Austro-Americana Blog Series Drawn to America: Julius Klinger’s Poster Art In this unique post, Karen Etingin presents the transatlantic elements in the work and style of one of the world’s original “Mad Men,” Julius Klinger. A preeminent poster artist during his time, Klinger’s innovations still influence the study and practice of design today. He […]

Podcast with Alison J. Clarke In this new podcast, Alison J. Clarke discusses her latest book, Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World. Clarke has written the first biography of the Austrian-American trailblazer in social design. In the late 1960s, Victor Papanek began writing his seminal “Design for the Real World” which argued for socially […]

BIAAS Austro-Americana Blog Series Atom Splitting /Atomzertrümmerung: Austrian Manhattan Project Scientist Otto Robert Frisch in Los Alamos, 1943-1945 Former Journal of Austrian-American History editor and BIAAS Grantee Kristina Poznan provides a unique survey of Otto Robert Frisch’s experiences in the Los Alamos Laboratory. The Vienna-born physicist immersed himself in the demanding work culture of Los […]

The Austrian Consulate General Los Angeles will host a webinar on April 23, 2021, Friday, from 12:00pm HST about Alfred Preis: architect, planner and advocate – a bi-cultural legacy of Austria and Hawaii.  The webinar panelists will discuss the history and significance of the midcentury Hawaii architect, Alfred Preis, designer of the USS Arizona Memorial […]