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Max Picard - Biography

Max Picard (June 5, 1888 in Schopfheim – October 3, 1965 in Sorengo, Switzerland) was a Swiss writer, important as one of the few thinkers writing from a deeply Platonic sensibility in the 20th century.

Selected books

(Most never published in English or out of print):

  • 1917 Expressionist Folk Painting
  • 1919 The Last Man
  • 1930 The Human Face
  • 1934 The Flight From God
  • 1947 Hitler in Our Selves
  • 1954 The Atomization of Modern Art
  • 1952 The World of Silence







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