Scheerbart was also an important influence on Walter Benjamin who quoted his ideas on glass in his Arcades Project. Among his Berlin friends and drinking circle was Erich Mühsam, who dedicated a chapter to Scheerbart in his 'Unpolitical Memories' and Richard Dehmel. Scheerbart's fantasy essays about glass architecture influenced architects at that time, including the young Bruno Taut. The young Ernst Rowohlt published Scheerbart's bizarre poem collection Katerpoesie and became his friend. After writing in different publications he produced his first novel ' Die große Revolution' ( The Great Revolution), which was published by the Insel-Verlag. In 1892 he was one of the joint founders of the Verlag deutscher Phantasten (Publishers of German Fantasists).Īt this time he was in financial difficulties. In 1887 he worked as a poet in Berlin and tried to invent Perpetual motion machines. Paul Scheerbart began studies of philosophy and history of art in 1885. He composed aphoristic poems about glass for the Taut's Glass Pavilion at the Werkbund Exhibition (1914). Scheerbart was associated with expressionist architecture and one of its leading proponents, Bruno Taut. He was also published under the pseudonym Kuno Küfer and is best known for the book Glasarchitektur (1914). Paul Karl Wilhelm Scheerbart (8 January 1863 in Danzig – 15 October 1915 in Berlin) was a German author of speculative fiction literature and drawings.
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