Carl Einstein (26 April 1885 – 5 July 1940), born Karl Einstein, was an influential German Jewish writer, art historian, and critic. He was not related to the physicist Albert Einstein.Regarded as one of the first critics to appreciate the development of Cubism, as well as for his work on African art and influence on the European avant-garde, Einstein was a friend and colleague of such figures as George Grosz, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. His work 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 involvement in social and political life was characterized by communist sympathies and anarchist views. A target of the German right wing during the interwar Weimar period, Einstein left Germany for France in 1928, a half-decade ahead of the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, later taking part in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the anti-Francisco Franco anarcho-syndicalists during the 1930s.Trapped in southern France following Nazi Germany's defeat of the French Third Republic, Einstein took his own life by jumping from a bridge on 5 July 1940.
Dr. Lutz Neitzert in his eulogy for Carl Einstein, "Der Kubismus, die Schlimme Botschaft und der Blutige Ernst", described him as as a Writer, Dadaist, Cubist, Avantguardist, Anarchist and Antifascist.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Der Bebuquin - Rendezvous mit Carl Einstein
2000
Documentary source material
Toni
1935
uncredited
Known for movies
Der Bebuquin - Rendezvous mit Carl Einstein 2000 as Writer
$12 Million
