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Carl Einstein, born Karl Einstein, also known by pseudonym Savine Ree Urian, was a German writer, art historian, anarchist, and critic.
A short biography of German poet, writer, art historian and anarchist combatant in the Spanish Revolution, Carl Einstein.
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Einstein, Carl, 1885-1940

Carl Einstein
Aka Karl Einstein, born 26 April 1885 - Neuwied/Rhein, Germany, died 3 or 5 July 1940 - France

Impassioned by art, Einstein was loosely associated with the Dada movement, and was part of the German expressionist movement where he discovered Picasso, cubism, and also African art.

His work The Art of the 20th century, published in 1926, revolutionised the way of approaching painting and the visual arts. The illustrations in Negerplastik, Carl Einstein's major work, strongly influenced many artists, including Fernand Leger. He published “Der blutige Ernst” with George Grosz.

In 1928, he moved to France, where he joined Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris on the review "Documents". He co-scripted, with director Jean Renoir, the film Toni.

Deeply moved by the struggle for freedom in Spain, in 1936 Einstein headed there, along with other compatriots like Helmut Rudiger, to fight with the anarchist trade union, the CNT A fighter with the international group of the Durruti Column, he was wounded in combat.

On November 22, 1936, he was i

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Carl Einstein: An Introduction

Zeidler, Sebastian. "Carl Einstein: An Introduction". Form as Revolt: Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016, pp. 8-26. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501701900-003

Zeidler, S. (2016). Carl Einstein: An Introduction. In Form as Revolt: Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art (pp. 8-26). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501701900-003

Zeidler, S. 2016. Carl Einstein: An Introduction. Form as Revolt: Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, pp. 8-26. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501701900-003

Zeidler, Sebastian. "Carl Einstein: An Introduction" In Form as Revolt: Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art, 8-26. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501701900-003

Zeidler S. Carl Einstein: An Introduction. In: Form as Revolt: Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; 2016. p.8-26. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501701900-003

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Defense of the Real: Carl Einstein's History and Theory of Art

Abstract

This study is designed as a focused intellectual biography of the German art critic and historian Carl Einstein (1885-1940). Its ambition is to retrieve what it argues is the profound coherence of Einstein's most important critical writings on the visual arts: the coherency of a political ontology that sought to think the aesthetic, its experience, and their history, as part of more fundamental yet thoroughly historical and agonistic struggles over the nature of the human subject, of its objects, and of the grounds on which they interact in time. That in Einstein's case this time should have been modernity has shaped the three main ambitions of this study: to retrace the intellectual coordinates of his ontology; to examine it in action in his art criticism; and to observe him extrude it backward in an effort to rewrite the history of art as a genealogy of the modern. Hence this study examines, first, how Einstein mined the work of thinkers like Nietzsche, Bergson, Mach, and Freud, in order to imagine