Carl Einstein

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Carl Einstein (26 April 1885 – 5 July 1940), born Karl Einstein, was a German Jewish writer, art historian, and critic.

Works[edit]

(in German unless noted otherwise)

Bebuquin oder die Dilettanten des Wunders, Berlin-Wilmersdorf: Die Aktion, 1912, 108 pp.
Der blutige Ernst, 1919. [1]
Negerplastik, Munich: K. Wolff, 1920, IDA.
- Negro Sculpture, trans. Patrick Healy, Amsterdam: November, 2014. (English)/(German)
Afrikanische Plastik, Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1921, IDA.
Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin: Propyläen, 1926, 575 pp; 3rd ed., Berlin: Propyläen, 1931, 655 pp.
Gesammelte Werke, ed. Ernst Nef, Wiesbaden: Limes, 1962.
A Mythology of Forms: Selected Writings on Art, University of California Press, 2019. (English)
more

Literature[edit]

Maria Stavrinaki, "Carl Einstein's History without Names: From Geology to the Masses", Grey Room 62, Winter 2016, pp 72-101. (English)
Sebastian Zeidler, Form as Revolt: Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. (English)
Anselm Franke, Tom Holert (eds.), Neolithische Kindheit. Kunst in einer falschen Gegenwart, ca. 1930, Berlin: Diaphanes & Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2018, 460 pp. (German)
- Neolithic Childhood: Art in a False Present, c. 1930, Berlin: Diaphanes & Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2018, 460 pp. (English)

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