His education at the Superior Technical School in Dresden was interrupted by military service. Loos came from a family of artisans and craftpersons in what is today the Czech Republic, and, according to his biographer, Panayotis Tournikiotis, was an indifferent student, indifferently educated. This is Adolf Loos whose mission it would be to damn decoration. This is a stripped down man who has something to say. There is none of the trappings of grandeur that covered Otto Wagner. From his carefully parted hair to his clasped hands, and neatly crossed legs, his pose suggests restraint. To offset the rampaging mustache, Loos has dressed himself neatly and conservatively, as an upper middle class intellectual. Untrimmed and unkempt, a strange lack of attention from an architect who was concerned with form above all else, this formless facial adornment was a shambles compared to the neat uplifted curls at the ends of Josef Hoffmann’s mustache. The lower half of his face is obscured by a large brush of a mustache, a common artifact of males of the period.
As if to distance himself from the culture that celebrated and commissioned Otto Wagner, the renegade architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933) posed for photographs as a common man, a man of the people, He glowered into the camera, dropping his head as if contemplating a bull-like charge.
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