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Carl Einstein (aka Karl Einstein) was born on April 26, 1885, in Neuwied/Rhein, Germany and died July 3 or July 5, 1940. Events 1467 - The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy. Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. Events 1295 - Scotland and France form an alliance the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

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Biography

Carl Einstein was an author belonging to Expressionism as well as a historian of art, communist sympathizer and anarchist activist. Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an Emotional effect it is a subjective art form Anarchism is a Political philosophy encompassing theories and attitudes which support the elimination of all compulsory Government, i Activism, in a general sense can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change He was a friend and colleague of George Grosz, Georges Braque, Picasso and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. George Grosz ( July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings Georges Braque ( May 13, 1882 &ndash August 31, 1963) was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso (October 25 1881 &ndash April 8 1973 Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler ( June 25, 1884 - January 11, 1979) born in Germany, was an art historian an art collector and one of the He combined many strands of both political and aesthetic discourse into his writings, addressing both the developing aesthetic of modern art and the political situation in Europe.

Einstein’s life was marked by the violent political and social implications of war and revolution. He was actively involved in the Revolutionary Soldier’s Council in Brussels and to a lesser extent in the Spartacist revolt in Berlin and later in the anarchist Durruti Column during the Spanish Civil War. The Spartacist League ( Spartakusbund in German) was a left-wing Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany The Durruti Column was the most famous column of anarchist fighters during the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted Coup d'état committed by parts of the army against the government of In addition to his participation in these political movements, Einstein’s fate as a German speaking Jew born to a religious, but assimilated family, placed him in the direct cross-fire of the forces of the violent anti-Semitism which shaped European history during his lifetime.

Einstein was a well-known author and art critic ranging from his debut novel Bebuquin oder die Dilettanten des Wunders, to his widely read work on African sculpture Negerplastik, despite its offensive sounding title, credited as being one of first important books acknowledging African art in Europe (and especially its relationship to Cubism), the final volume of the prestigious Propyläen Verlag history of art series Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts (Art of the 20th Century), which may have gained him an invitation to teach at the Bauhaus (he declined), to the notorious play Die Schlimme Botschaft. Another Africa-related book is "Afrikanische Märchen und Legenden", a compilation of African mythology in very expressive language. See also Religion in Africa African traditional religions, also referred to as African indigenous religions or African Einstein also worked on numerous journals and collective projects, among some of the more important: Die Aktion edited by Franz Pfemfert, Die Pleite and Der Blutige Ernst with George Grosz, and the legendary journal Documents: Doctrines, Archéologie, Beaux-arts, Ethnographie edited with Georges Bataille. Georges Bataille (ʒɔʀʒ baˈtaj ( September 10, 1897 &ndash July 8, 1962) was a French Writer.

Following a malicious campaign led by rightwing zealots against his play Die Schlimme Botschaft which led to his conviction for “blasphemy” in 1922, Einstein voluntarily left Germany (then the Weimar Republic) remaining mostly in France although traveling back and forth, until, with Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, his exile became permanent and officially mandated. Einstein spent 1936-1938 fighting in the Spanish Civil War after which he returned to France where in 1940 he was arrested and interned along with the other German émigrés until his liberation later in the spring of 1940 as a result of the chaotic circumstances in the face of the rapidly progressing German invasion. Finally the implications of the geopolitical advances of the German army would isolate and eventually trap Einstein on the French border with Franco’s Spain, leaving him with no alternative than suicide.

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