Max Picard

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Max Picard (born June 5, 1888 in Schopfheim , † October 3, 1965 in Neggio near Lugano ) was a Swiss doctor and cultural philosopher .

Life

His great-grandfather was a famous rabbi . Picard studied medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau , Berlin and Munich , but also heard philosophical lectures by Heinrich Rickert and Ernst Troeltsch . He became an assistant doctor in Heidelberg and then a doctor in Munich. In 1918 he gave up his work as a doctor because of what he saw as mechanistic medicine and settled down as a freelance writer in Ticino in order to be able to do diagnostic and healing work.

Picard wrote works on art theory, cultural philosophy and cultural criticism. He first became known for his works on the human physiognomy , in which he poetically characterized and interpreted the mystery of the human face and related it to the animal face and historical human portraits. In the work The Unshakable Marriage he went into the institution of marriage and defended it against modern subjectivism . His book Hitler caused a sensation in us . In his work after the Second World War, Picard was particularly critical of city life and the mass media such as radio and television , where there was no more silence and silence, and he also rejected psychoanalysis . He was thus regarded as an outdated and anti-modern, but not reactionary thinker.

In 1952 he received the Johann Peter Hebel Prize . The people who dealt with Picard's work or admired him include Rainer Maria Rilke , Joseph Roth , André Gide , Gabriel Marcel , Hermann Hesse and Rudolf Kassner .

At the suggestion of Max Picard, the writer Ernst Wiechert wrote the second volume “ Jeromin-Kinder ”, then the continuation of “ Forests and People ” and the commemorative volume “ Years and Times ”, which was published in Switzerland.

Works

  • 1914 The citizen. White Books Publishing House, Leipzig
  • 1916 The end of impressionism. Piper, Munich
  • 1917 Expressionist peasant painting. Delphin, Munich
  • 1919 Medieval wooden figures. Rentsch, Erlenbach
  • 1921 The last man. ETTal & Co, Leipzig
  • 1929 The human face. Delphin, Munich; 2nd to 6th edition 1941ff Rentsch, Erlenbach
  • 1933 The unborn, round table between MP, Otto Gemlin, Paul Alverdes, Fritz Künkel, Hermann Herrigel, Wilhelm Michel.
  • 1934 The flight from God. Rentsch, Erlenbach
  • 1937 The limits of physiognomics. Rentsch, Erlenbach
  • 1942 The unshakable marriage. Rentsch, Erlenbach
  • 1946 Hitler in ourselves. Rentsch, Erlenbach
  • 1948 The world of silence. Rentsch, Erlenbach
  • 1951 Destroyed and indestructible world. Rentsch, Erlenbach
  • 1953 word and word noise. Furche, Hamburg
  • 1953 The atomization in modern art. Furche, Hamburg
  • 1955 Man and the word. Rentsch, Erlenbach
  • 1955 Is freedom even possible today? Furche, Hamburg
  • 1958 The atomization of the person. Furche, Hamburg
  • 1961 Break into the child's soul. Furche, Hamburg
  • 1965 fragments. From the estate of 1920–1965. Rentsch, Erlenbach
  • 1967 night and day. Rentsch, Erlenbach
  • 1970 Letters to his friend Karl Pfleger. Rentsch, Erlenbach
  • 1974 The old house in Schopfheim. From the estate. Rentsch, Erlenbach
  • 1988 Like the last plate of an acrobat, selection from the work, ed. by Manfred Bosch. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen
  • 1989 to Santa Fosca. Diary from Italy. (identical to 'Destroyed and Indestructible World') List, Munich

In addition: magazine articles, translations, etc. a.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Die Zeit on February 19, 1990: The disappearance of silence online edition
  2. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great men of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures. Sebastian Lux Verlag, Munich 1960, p. 358

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personal data
SURNAME Picard, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor and cultural philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Schopfheim
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1965
Place of death Neggio near Lugano