Erika Giovanna Klien [SEP] country of citizenship
Erika Giovanna Klien
Erika Giovanna Klien (12 April 1900 – 19 July 1957) was an artist and art educator.
Career.
Erika Giovanna Klien began her studies at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, also known as "Kunstgewerbeschule Wien" in Vienna, Austria in 1919 and graduated in 1925. She was a student of Dr. Franz Cizek and became one of his teaching assistants at his Juvenile Art Class. In Cizek's course, Theory of Ornamental Form, Klien was introduced to a new style known as Viennese
encouraged him to start an art school for children. The Juvenile Art Classes were free of charge to children of Vienna. The children were interviewed and selected by Cizek. His teaching method had limited structure, and imagination and free expression were encouraged.
In 1904, he was appointed director of the Department of Experimentation and Research at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. Some of his students became teaching assistants for the children's art classes. One assistant was Erika Giovanna Klien, who later emigrated to the United States and employed