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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Ferdinand Avenarius Biography AVENARIUS, Ferdinand (1806-[1923]). A German æsthetic philosopher, art critic, and lyric poet, nephew of Richard Wagner, born at Berlin and educated at the universities of Leipzig and Zurich. He devoted himself to the philosophy of art, and in 1887 became the founder of the Kumstwart an art journal of reformatory tendencies, which publication, after many reverses and antagonisms, became the foremost organ of its class. He is the editor of a popular and extensive collection of art reproductions. The poetic works of Avenarius are the idyl Die Kinder von Wohldorf (1886; 6th ed., 1910); Lebe! (1897, 8th ed., 1909); and the collections entitled Stimmen und Bilder (1897; 7th ed., 1910) and Hausbuch deutscher Lyrik (10th ed., 1910). His critical works comprise the anthology, Deutsche Lyrik der Gegenwart (2d ed., 1884) and Max Klinger's Griffellkunst (2d ed., 1907); Balladen Buch (1907, 1910); Das fröhliche Buch aus deutscher Dichter und maler Kunst gesammelt (1910). For criticism, consult G. Heine, Ferdinand Avenarius als Dichter (Leipzig, 1904). The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol II (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 440. |