Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (b. 1898) studied in Vienna with Franz Cižek before moving on to the renowned Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919. Johannes Itten, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky were among her most influential teachers. In 1923 she and another former Bauhaus student, Franz Singer, set up a studio for interior design in Berlin and, later, Vienna.