Gustave Kahn

Félix Vallotton : Portrait of Gustave Kahn in the book Le Livre des masques (Vol. 2, 1898) by Rémy de Gourmont

Gustave Kahn (born December 21, 1859 in Metz ; died September 6, 1936 in Paris ) was a French writer . In 1887 he published the volume of poetry Les Palais Nomades . Together with Jules Laforgue he was an early exponent of poetry in free verse ( vers libre ). In addition to poetry, he wrote novels such as Le Roi fou , Le Cirque solaire , L'Adultère sentimental and La Childebert , short stories and the play La Farce Polichinelle .

Kahn was editor-in-chief of the Zionist magazine Menorah in the 1920s .

Works (selection)

• The woman in the caricature of France . Stuttgart 1907
• Europe's princes in the moral mirror of the caricature . Berlin 1908 ( digitized version )
• Félicien Rops . Berlin: Marquardt 1912
• Louis Legrand . Berlin 1913

literature

• Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume 10, 1971, Col. 688 f
• Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the Czernowitz 1925 edition)

Web links

Commons : Gustave Kahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Gustave Kahn  - sources and full texts (French)

• Deutschlandfunk, broadcast of the historical calendar sheet on December 21, 2009
• Literature by and about Gustave Kahn in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Les Palais Nomades In: Bibliothèque nationale de France
2. ↑ Gustave Kahn In: Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, Jason Gaiger: Art in theory, 1815-1900 - an anthology of changing ideas p. 1016 (English, digitized version )
3. ↑ Richard Shryock: Gustave et Rachel Kahn ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French)