The architect Adolf Loos occupies a central, yet at the same time ambivalent, position in several of Lucy McKenzie’s works. The points of reference are manifold: in McKenzie’s art, Loos becomes a projection figure through which questions of architecture, aesthetics, class, power, and gender are explored.

Cultural historian Lisa Fischer has examined Adolf Loos’s relationship to women in numerous publications, focusing in particular on his three wives. According to Fischer, the significant contributions of Lina Loos, Elsie Altmann-Loos, and Claire Beck Loos to his life and work become clearer “when viewed in the context of a female support network bound to traditional gender roles and subordinated to the male principle of creation.” In her lecture, she will explain and elaborate on this perspective.Participation in the event is possible without prior registration (limited seating available).


Lisa Fischer (*1959) lives in Vienna, where she works as a cultural historian. Her main research areas include women’s history and female biographical studies.
She is the author of numerous publications, including: Lina Loos, Wenn die Muse sich selbst küsst, 1994/2007, Die Frauen der Wiener Moderne, 1997, Schattenwürfe in die Zukunft, Kaiserin Elisabeth und die Frauen ihrer Zeit, 1998, Möbel in Balance. Anna Lülja Praun, 2001, Die Riviera an der Donau, 2003 (aktualisiert 2024), Sigmund Freud, Wiener Schauplätze der Psychoanalyse, 2005, Irgendwo, Wien Theresienstadt und die Welt. Die Sammlung Heinrich Rieger, 2008, Wiederentdeckt, Margarete Depner, Meisterin des Porträts der Siebenbürgischen klassischen Moderne, 2011, Liebe im Grünen, Kreative Sommerfrischen in Reichenau und am Semmering, 2014, Im Zauber der Quellen Wien in Baden - Eine Hausgeschichte, 2018. 
For her scholarly, curatorial, and journalistic work, Lisa Fischer has been awarded, among others, the Goldene Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich and the Käthe Leichter-Preis.