Eduard Fuchs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Eduard Fuchs

German historian

Date of Birth: 31-Jan-1870

Place of Birth: Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 26-Jan-1940

Profession: historian, art historian, journalist, art collector, cultural historian

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Eduard Fuchs

  • Eduard Fuchs (31 January 1870, Göppingen – 26 January 1940, Paris) was a German Marxist scholar of culture and history, writer, art collector, and political activist. Fuchs' father was a shopkeeper.
  • Early in his life, the younger Fuchs developed socialist and Marxist political convictions.
  • In 1886, he joined the outlawed political party Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei (the precursor of the modern SPD, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands).
  • Fuchs received a doctor of law degree and practiced as an attorney.
  • In 1892, he became editor-in-chief of the satiric weekly Süddeutscher Postillon and later co-editor of the Leipziger Volkszeitung.
  • His inflammatory articles in newspapers—one accusing the Kaiser of being a mass murderer—resulted in periodic jail sentences.
  • During his periods of confinement, Fuchs wrote various social histories utilizing images as one of his primary sources.
  • The first of these was his Karikatur der europäischen Völker (Caricatures of European Peoples), 1902. He moved to Berlin that same year where he edited the socialist newspaper Vorwärts.
  • The following year he began his magnum opus, an examination of moral practice, Sittengeschichte, eventually running to six volumes by 1912.
  • While engaged in this series, he followed up his interest in caricatures with one devoted to the representation of women, Die Frau in der Karikatur, 1905 (3 vols).
  • Another book documenting the stereotypical representations of Jews appeared in 1912.
  • Fuchs traveled with the artist Max Slevogt to Egypt in 1914, shortly before the outbreak of World War I.
  • He was a pacifist during the War.
  • Lenin's government put him in charge of prisoner exchange with Germany after the war; he was among the leaders of the German Comintern in Berlin in 1919.
  • His interest in societal concerns in caricature led to a research interest in Daumier.
  • Beginning in 1920, Fuchs published a catalogue raisonné on the artist in three volumes.
  • He resigned from the party in 1929, following the expulsion of several stalwarts.
  • At Hitler's ascension to power in Germany in 1933, Fuchs moved to France.

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