''Der Querschnitt'' () was an art magazine published by German art dealer

Alfred Flechtheim Alfred Flechtheim (1 April 1878 – 9 March 1937) was a German Jewish art dealer, art collector, journalist and publisher persecuted by the Nazis. Early years Flechtheim was born into a Jewish merchant family; his father, Emil Flechtheim, was a g ...

between 1921 and 1936. The magazine was based in

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. According to Erika Esau, the magazine "represented the politically detached aspirations of the aesthetically attuned of the Western world. Lightheartedly

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, the magazine's inclusions of works by anyone who was anybody in the Weimar period and its unorthodox graphic and literary style qualifies it as an avant-garde publication." ''Der Querschnitt'' was seen as a German counterpart of the American magazine ''

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'' by some. In 1924,

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published his poem "The Soul of Spain With McAlmon and Bird the Publishers" in ''Der Querschnitt'' where he directly attacked ''The Dial''.

Hermann von Wedderkop Hermann von Wedderkop (1875–1956) was a German writer. He also served as editor of the art magazine '' Der Querschnitt''.Brooker, Peter, et al. (eds.The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume III, Europe 1880-1940 Par ...

served as an editor of the publication.Brooker, Peter, et al. (eds.) (2013)
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume III, Europe 1880-1940 Part I
p. 869 Its last editor was Edmund Franz von Gordon.

References

Bibliography

*Erika Esau
″The magazine of enduring value: Der Querschnitt (1921-1936) and the World of illustrated magazines″
in ''The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines'', vol. III, 2013. *Malcolm Gee, ″Defining the modern art collector in the Weimar years″, in: Geschmacksgeschichte(n): öffentliches und privates Kunstsammeln in Deutschland, 1871- 1933, eds. U. Wolff-Thomsen, and S. Kuhrau, Kiel, Verlag Ludwig, 2011, 115–130. *Malcolm Gee, ″The 'cultured city': the art press in Berlin and Paris in the early twentieth century″, in ''Printed Matters: Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture in Europe in the modern period'', eds. M. Gee and T. Kirk, Ashgate, 2002, 150–173. *Malcolm Gee, ‘The Berlin Art World, 1918-1933’ in: Malcolm Gee, Tim Kirk and Jill Steward (eds), ''The City in central Europe : culture and society from 1800 to the present'', Ashgate, 1999.

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