Lina Loos (née Carolina Catharina Obertimpfler; 9 October 1882, in

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– 6 June 1950, in Vienna) was an Austrian

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actress and

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journalist. She is best remembered for her appearances at the Linden-Cabaret in

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, and for her posthumous collection of writings edited by Adolf Opel. She was briefly married to

Adolf Loos Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known c ...

. 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

, who was twelve years her senior in

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. 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.

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