Karl Scheffler
Karl Scheffler
Karl Scheffler (1869 – 1951) was an art critic and publicist. In 1906 he published Der Deutsche und seine Kunst. Eine notgedrungene Streitschrift, a vehement plea for impressionism as the artform of modernity. He was the editor of the influential journal Kunst und Künstler from 1907 until 1933, when it was banned by the Nazis.
Karl Scheffler (1869 – 1951) was an art critic and publicist. In 1906 he published Der Deutsche und seine Kunst. Eine notgedrungene Streitschrift, a vehement plea for impressionism as the artform of modernity. He was the editor of the influential journal Kunst und Künstler from 1907 until 1933, when it was banned by the Nazis.
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Year of Publication: 2015
Karl SchefflerYear of Publication: 2015
Berlin
Berlin, writes Karl Scheffler at the end of his classic 1910 portrait of the city, is damned »forever to become and never to be«. Unlike London or Paris, the metropolis on the Spree lacked an organic principle of development. It was nothing more than a colonial city, its sole purpose to conquer the East, its inhabitants a hodgepodge of materialistic individualists. No art or culture with...