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Carl Einstein: Encyclopedia - Carl Einstein

Carl Einstein (aka Karl Einstein) was born on April 26, 1885, in Neuwied/Rhein, Germany and died July 3 or July 5, 1940. A German poet, writer, art historian and an anarchist combatant in the Spanish Civil War Carl was nephew of the famous physicist, Albert Einstein. He commited suicide in 1940 to avoid Nazi persecution. 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. This te ...

Carl Einstein

Carl Einstein: Encyclopedia - Carl Einstein

Carl Einstein

Carl Einstein (aka Karl Einstein) was born on April 26, 1885, in Neuwied/Rhein, Germany and died July 3 or July 5, 1940.

A German poet, writer, art historian and an anarchist combatant in the Spanish Civil War Carl was nephew of the famous physicist, Albert Einstein. He commited suicide in 1940 to avoid Nazi persecution.

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.

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