---- I've read a lot of the literature and some of the math and science from that period, and of course studied the visual arts, and even got into the music a little. They are all wedded together and creat this fabulously rich world, they were all in a race to get `modern.' ---
I'm very cautious in bringing together very different lines of production like art and science, already math and physics are quite different: Poincare was a mathematician. But there is a story where Einstein met modern art: In 1929 the young architect Kondrad Wachsmann designed the summer house for the Einsteins in Caputh near Berlin.(http://www.einstein-website.de/z_biography/caputh-e.html) They stayed in touch to the of Einsteins life. Wachsmann was one of those hard core modern architects like Mies von der Rohe and Walter Gropius. In German there is a very instructive book, based on long interviews to the jounalist Michael Grüning during Wachsmanns 1979 trip to the GDR on the occasion of the reopening of the Einstein-house in Caputh as part of the "Einstein Laboratory for theoretical physics". A book with all the social and cultural and political background - but never translated. (Der Wachsman Report, Berlin/GDR, 1985).
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