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Max Deri
1878–1938
A sharp-eyed German art historian and critic, he wrote about aesthetics, modern art, and the big shifts in artistic taste in the early 20th century. His work is especially tied to debates around naturalism, idealism, and expressionism.
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Naturalismus, Idealismus, Expressionismus
by Max Deri
About the author
Born in 1878 and died in 1938, Max Deri was a German writer on art and aesthetics whose work focused on how people understand and judge artistic expression.
He is best known today for Naturalismus, Idealismus, Expressionismus, a study of major artistic tendencies and the ideas behind them. The surviving records found here point to him as an art historian and critic interested in the changing character of modern art rather than a novelist or poet.
Although he is not widely known to general readers now, Deri belongs to the lively world of early 20th-century European cultural debate, when critics and scholars were trying to make sense of new artistic movements and new ways of seeing.