100 Objects from Century of the Child

Friedl Dicker. So sieht sie aus, mein Kind, diese Welt (This is how the world looks, my child). 1932-33 Dicker, who trained at the Bauhaus in Germany, designed this poster for the Viennese Communist Party in response to the rapidly deteriorating economic situation of 1932–33 and the rise of Fascism in Austria. The photomontage presents her view of the present and future positions of children in society, touching on themes of poverty, birth control, unemployment, hunger, slum dwelling, and Nazism. Her concern for children extended to their education; in 1930, with her then-partner Franz Singer, she designed a Montessori kindergarten that was widely admired as a showpiece of Vienna’s enlightened educational policy and a model of modernist design. Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

Friedl Dicker. So sieht sie aus, mein Kind, diese Welt (This is how the world looks, my child). 1932-33

Dicker, who trained at the Bauhaus in Germany, designed this poster for the Viennese Communist Party in response to the rapidly deteriorating economic situation of 1932–33 and the rise of Fascism in Austria. The photomontage presents her view of the present and future positions of children in society, touching on themes of poverty, birth control, unemployment, hunger, slum dwelling, and Nazism. Her concern for children extended to their education; in 1930, with her then-partner Franz Singer, she designed a Montessori kindergarten that was widely admired as a showpiece of Vienna’s enlightened educational policy and a model of modernist design.

Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

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Get your daily dose of design from the MoMA exhibition Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000. During each of the 100 days of the exhibition we will showcase an object featured in the show.

To find out more about Century of the Child visit MoMA.org/centuryofthechild.

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