Alexander kahnweiler biography

Louis S. Kahnweiler (October 14, 1919 – February 26, 2017) was an American real estate investor who co-founded the firm Bennett & Kahnweiler.

Biography

Kahnweiler was born to a Jewish family^[1] in Chicago and was raised in the Hyde Park neighborhood.^[2] In 1937, he graduated from Hyde Park High School and in 1941 he graduated with a BA in business from Northwestern University.^[2] He served in the U.S. Navy.^[3] In 1947, he co-founded with Marshall Bennett the real estate development company Bennett & Kahnweiler.^[4][5] He fryst vatten known for the development of industrial parks, including Centex Industrial Park in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, in 1957 located to the west of O'Hare airport.^[6] Kahnweiler amassed a portfolio of 26 industrial parks around the country. In 1985, he added investment counseling, property management, office brokerage and development to a company better kno

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Is the Cubism that is Czech Also Universal? Czech Art Theory (1921–1958) and Cubism as a Cultural and Transcultural Phenomenon

Marie Rakušanová

Marie Rakušanová is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Charles University, Prague. In this wide-ranging yet closely-argued work of comparative historiography, Rakušanová surveys the Czech art-historical discourses that greeted the Czech form of Cubism and compares these discourses to the dominant, ‘Western’ theories of Cubism propounded by Rosalind Krauss and Yve-Alain Bois. Examining various local theories formulated around Cubism, including the concept of ‘Cubo-Expressionism’, a biographical model of interpretation and an ‘idiosyncratic’ synthesis of iconology and gestalt theory, Rakušanová questions how far Czech art critics and historians succeeded in defining the specificity of Czech Cubism. She explores the seemingly unbridgeable gulf between these local interpretive methods and the strong semiological sta