Lilly Steiner (Vienna 1884 - 1964 Paris)
"Ex Libris Adolf Loos"
1925
etching on paper
inscribed in the plate at bottom with a saying ascribed to Tsvang-Tse (probably the Chinese Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi): "hätte - ich - diesen - Baum - nicht - gefunden -- ich - hätte - die - Arbeit - lassen - müssen - - - TSVANG-TSE - -"
["If I hadn't found this tree, I would have had to abandon the work. TSVANG-TSE."]
signed in the plate bottom right: "L. STEINER"
The Daulton Collection
Adolf Loos (Austrian/Czech, 1870-1933) was, of course, the influential modernist architect and theorist based in Vienna.
