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Friedl Dicker (actually Friederike, 1898 to 1944) was the only child of a bourgeois Viennese couple of Jewish origin. Her mother died before it was four years old, and the father made his art -gifted daughter visiting the textile class in the renowned arts and crafts school at the Stubenring (today University of Applied Art). She was not only delighted by the arts and crafts herself, but also the new teaching methods that Franz Čižek taught there. Čižek promoted the free, creative painting of the children and their work with new materials. He exhibited her pictures in the classrooms and schools – all a revolution compared to the usual authoritarian lessons and strict discussing and copying classic templates.
