Lina Loos (née Carolina Catharina Obertimpfler; 9 October 1882, in Vienna – 6 June 1950, in Vienna) was an Austrian cabaret actress and feuilleton journalist. She is best remembered for her appearances at the Linden-Cabaret in Berlin, and for her posthumous collection of writings edited by

Adolf Opel Adolf Opel (12 June 1935, in Vienna – 15 July 2018, in Vienna) was an Austrian writer, filmmaker, and editor. He edited publications of the writings of Adolf Loos, Elsie Altmann-Loos, Else Feldmann, and Lina Loos. He also made films about P ...

. She was briefly married to Adolf Loos. Her life was the subject of the German film ''

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'' (2017).

Life

Carolina Obertimpfler was born on 9 October 1882 to Carl Obertimpfler, a coffee house owner. In July 1902, she married architect Adolf Loos, who was twelve years her senior in

Eisgrub Lednice (; german: Eisgrub) is a municipality and village in Břeclav District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,100 inhabitants. It is known as part of Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritag ...

. The furniture manufacturer Max Schmidt and his brother Karl Leo Schmidt served as witnesses. In 1903, Loos began an affair with 18-year old student Heinz Lang.Schwartz, Frederic J. “Architecture and Crime: Adolf Loos and the Culture of the ‘Case.’” The Art Bulletin, vol. 94, no. 3, 2012, pp. 437–57. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23268280. Accessed 12 July 2023. Lang had hoped Loos would break up with her husband and travel to him, but she wrote to him that she had changed her mind and refused to come. Afterwards Lang committed suicide. Loos died on 6 June 1950 at

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aged 67, after suffering from cancer.

References

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