WRITER

Karel Teige

1900 - 1951

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Karel Teige (13 December 1900 – 1 October 1951) was a Czech modernist avant-garde artist, writer, critic and one of the most important figures of the 1920s and 1930s movement. He was a member of the Devětsil (Butterbur) movement in the 1920s and also worked as an editor and graphic designer for Devětsil's monthly magazine ReD (Revue Devětsilu). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Teige has received more than 65,030 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Karel Teige is the 4,047th most popular writer (down from 3,664th in 2019), the 506th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 439th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Czech Writer.

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  • 65k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The minimum dwelling =
Apartment houses, Housing, Modern movement (Architecture)
"Karel Teige (1900-1951), one of the most important figures of the European avant-garde, influenced virtually every area of art, design, and urban thinking in the 1920s and 1930s. His Minimum Dwelling, originally published in Czech in 1932 and appearing now for the first time in English, is one of the landmark architectural books of the twentieth century.". "Minimum Dwelling is not just a book on architecture; it is a blueprint for a new way of living, calling for a radical rethinking of domestic space and of the role of modern architecture in the planning, design, and construction of new dwelling types for the proletariat. Teige goes far beyond Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and other architects whose proposals Teige viewed as little more than new versions of baroque palaces, mainly for the new financial aristocracy. Teige envisioned the minimum dwelling not as a reduced version of a bourgeois apartment or rural cottage, but as a wholly new dwelling type built with the cooperation of architects, sociologists, economists, health officials, physicians, social workers, politicians, and trade unionists.". "The book covers many subjects that are still of great relevance. Of particular interest are Teige's rejection of traditional notions of the kitchen as the core of family-centered plans and of marriage as the foundation of modern cohabitation. He describes alternative lifestyles and new ways of cohabitation of sexes, generations, and classes."--BOOK JACKET.
2002
Sovětská kultura
Arts, Modern, Arts, Russian, Arts, Soviet
1927
Stavba a báseň
Aesthetics, Arts, Modern Poetry
1927
Príspevky
2023
Modern architecture in Czechoslovakia and other writings
Modern movement (Architecture), Architecture, Architecture, czech republic
2000
Modern Architecture in Czechoslavia and Other Writings (Texts and Documents Series)
2000

Page views of Karel Teiges by language

Over the past year Karel Teige has had the most page views in the with 16,170 views, followed by English (7,594), and German (1,918). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (140.00%), Swedish (57.96%), and Romanian (25.45%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Karel Teige ranks 4,047 out of 7,302. Before him are Zenta Mauriņa, V. C. Andrews, Alaa Al Aswany, Ivan Shmelyov, Simon Leys, and Cecco Angiolieri. After him are Anna Langfus, Bret Harte, Chairil Anwar, Marcel Jouhandeau, James Redfield, and Jan Kott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Karel Teige ranks 186. Before him are Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer, Haskell Curry, Adlai Stevenson II, Maurice Dobb, and Edward Stettinius Jr.. After him are Charley Paddock, Teodoro Picado Michalski, Vasily Abaev, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Erna Berger, and George Calnan. Among people deceased in 1951, Karel Teige ranks 115. Before him are J. C. Leyendecker, Sabiha Kasimati, Ernesto Ambrosini, Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, Haj Ali Razmara, and Nikola Mushanov. After him are Edith Hannam, Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Carl Albert Andersen, Henry Carton de Wiart, Peter Cheyney, and Miyamoto Yuriko.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Teige ranks 506 out of 1,200. Before him are Miroslav Ondříček (1934), Vera Ralston (1920), Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe (1873), Ludvík Vaculík (1926), Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611), and Vladimír Špidla (1951). After him are Zdeněk Mácal (1936), Antonín Švehla (1873), Hugo Haas (1901), Miroslav Vitouš (1947), Ivan Hašek (1963), and Karel Píč (1920).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Karel Teige ranks 52. Before him are Arnošt Lustig (1926), Moritz Steinschneider (1816), Václav Hanka (1791), Ernst Weiss (1882), Jaroslav Vrchlický (1853), and Ludvík Vaculík (1926). After him are Karel Píč (1920), Daniela Hodrová (1946), Josef Kajetán Tyl (1808), Julius Zeyer (1841), František Langer (1888), and Jan Blahoslav (1523).

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