The writer and painter Albert Paris Gütersloh was one of the key figures in the development of Austrian culture during the twentieth century, making major contributions as a teacher, mentor, founder, catalyst, and innovator. Gütersloh was the authority, the theoretician, the academic expert in painting and writing circles. Authors such as Robert Musil, Hermann Broch, and Josef Roth saw him as an equal, and critics of his literary work ranked him with Goethe, Jean Paul, and James Joyce. Gütersloh was indeed a brilliant writer with an encyclopedic knowledge of European culture. His historical awareness, scholarship, and insight were second to those of none of his contemporaries. Gütersloh had the ability to see beyond the immediate situation and could integrate the immense diversity of the cultural movements in his time into a coherent vision. His theoretical contribution to the development of...