Lina Loos

Lina Loos (née Carolina Catharina Obertimpfler; 9 October 1882, in Vienna – 6 June 1950, in Vienna) was an Austrian cabaret actress and feuilleton journalist. She is best remembered for her appearances at the Linden-Cabaret in Berlin, and for her posthumous collection of writings edited by Adolf Opel. She was briefly married to Adolf Loos. Her life was the subject of the German film Lina (2017).[1][2][3]

Lina Loos
Lina Loos in 1904
Born
Carolina Catharina Obertimpfler

(1882-10-09)9 October 1882
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died6 June 1950(1950-06-06) (aged 67)
Vienna, Austria

Life

Carolina Obertimpfler was born on 9 October 1882 to Carl Obertimpfler, a coffee house owner.[4][5]

In July 1902, she married architect Adolf Loos, who was twelve years her senior in Eisgrub.[5] The furniture manufacturer Max Schmidt and his brother Karl Leo Schmidt served as witnesses.[6] In 1903, Loos began an affair with 18-year old student Heinz Lang.[7] Lang had hoped Loos would break up with her husband and travel to him, but she wrote to him that she had changed her mind and refused to come. Afterwards Lang committed suicide.[5]

Loos died on 6 June 1950 at Vienna General Hospital aged 67, after suffering from cancer.[5]

References
  1. Fischer, Lisa (2007). Lina Loos oder Wenn die Muse sich selbst küßt (in German) (2. Aufl., Jub.-Ausg ed.). Vienna. ISBN 978-3-205-77611-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. Rüther, Leopoldine; Csokor, Franz Theodor, eds. (1966). Du silberne Dame Du: Briefe von u. an Lina Loos (in German). Vienna: Zsolnay. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  3. Fischer, Lisa (1993). Lina Loos – oder die Rekonstruktion weiblicher Kreativität in einer sozial-historischen Biographie (Dissertation) (in German). Vienna.
  4. Café Casa Piccola im Design Info Pool (dip) des Museums für angewandte Kunst Wien at the Wayback Machine (archived 2013-12-30)
  5. Lindinger, Michaela (28 May 2020). "Los von Loos!". Wien Museum (in German).
  6. Fischer, Lisa (2013). Das Buch ohne Titel.
  7. Schwartz, Frederic J. “Architecture and Crime: Adolf Loos and the Culture of the ‘Case.’” The Art Bulletin, vol. 94, no. 3, 2012, pp. 437–57. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23268280. Accessed 12 July 2023.
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