I am too modern for the peaceful citizens

The German philosopher Eberhard Grisebach (1880-1945) acquired his first painting by Ferdinand Hodler as a student and became his friend. From Jena, where he taught philosophy until 1931, and Davos, where the family of his wife Charlotte Spengler was at home, he also maintained a lively correspondence with Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Cuno Amiet, Giovanni Giacometti, August Macke, Erich Heckel and many other artists and intellectuals of his time. Through these selected letters in chronological order, first published in 1962, as well as the new appendix with 390 notes on events, people and works of art, an informative and colourful mosaic &uuml about art, artists and the time on the threshold between Expressionism and Modernism is created.