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This small sized monograph on the artist and his productions is composed of four separate discourses which however are organized in a manner that they blend into one another in understandable unity. These essays collected in booklet form represent four problems which have been extended and deepened through additional facts and new considerations beyond that already accomplished in the author's former large work “Grundlegung der Algemeinen Kunstwissenschaft,” the second edition of which appeared in 1920. He has also collected and published considerable characterological material much of which resulted from personal investigations in his “Jahrbuch der Charakterologie” and again systematically in a work called “Charakterologie.”
Both the first and the last discourses in this booklet, “The Problem of General Art Theory” and the “Character of Artists” respectively were delivered before various societies and published in the “Zeitschrift für Astbetiker und Allgemeine Kuntswissenschaft,” the second “The Creations of Artists” was delivered before the local Berlin Kantgesellschaft in 1924 and the third “Art and Mental Disease” was read in Prague, German Urania, in 1924 and published in the “Deutscher Medizinische Wochenschrift.”
These essays deal principally with the behavior of artists and the