Carl Einstein

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

Works

(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.
• 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

• 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)

Links

• http://www.carleinstein.org
• Carl-Einstein-Archiv, digitized in 2018
• https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2018/neolithische_kindheit/neolithische_kindheit_start.php
• http://fab-berlin.de/CEalm10.pdf
• http://www.jstor.org/stable/i367796
• http://llull.cat/IMAGES_175/transfer07-not03.pdf
• http://www.dadaweb.de/wiki/Carl_Einstein
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Einstein