Karl Scheffler
Furthermore, beginning in 1897, Scheffler reported on the Berlin art scene in the renowned monthly magazine Dekorative Kunst, published by Julius Meier-Graefe.While he showed great interest in the representatives of the Arts and Crafts movement such as Henry van de Velde, Peter Behrens and August Endell, he was initially skeptical of the Berlin Secession.In the years leading up to the First World War, his committed approach played a key role in helping the Impressionist art movement, which was still controversial in Germany at the time, to gain acceptance among the public.Scheffler was well aware of the polarizing power of art criticism, which he used for many years in his position as editor in chief of the widely read Vossische Zeitung.Referring to the famous quote, Harry Nutt regretted in 2005 in the Frankfurter Rundschau that Karl Scheffler's immense oeuvre is often reduced to a single sentence.