Erika Giovanna Klien (1900-1957)

Erika Giovann Klien was born Trentino, Italy, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She studied at the Hochschule fr Angewandte Kunst in Vienna between 1919 and 1924, under the tutelage of the famous Viennese art paedagogue Franz Cizek. He was the founder of Kineticism, a movement inspired by the Italian Futurists, of which Klien was a main proponent. In 1929 Klien emigrated to America and took on American citizenship in 1938. She died in New York in 1957.