Frederick Kiesler's contribution to the Imagery of Chess show isn't known. He supposedly was in charge of the lighting for the exhibit. He also has the distinction of being the only player to draw against George Koltanowski in the blindfold demonstration.

Although Kiesler (1890-1965), an Austrian avant-garde artist and an architect, got off to a good star with an early success in the 1924 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, when he moved to the United States in 1926, his European reputation didn't follow him and by 1927 he was out of work. He mostly found projects in related fields such as set design and window displays.

Kiesler was a good friend of Duchamp and, in fact, they were next door neighbors for a year. They collaborated on several projects including one featured in VVV magazine. He was the creator and director of the Laboratory for Design Correlation, a sub-department with in Columbia University's Department of Architecture. from 1937 to 1943.

He had married Steffi Frischer in 1920 and Lillian Olinsey in 1964 after Steffi Kiesler died in 1963. Frederick Kiesler himself died in 1965.