RESUMO Poeta de vanguarda que se tornou historiador e teórico da arte, mediador cultural entre França e Alemanha, Carl Einstein colaborou com diversas publicações (entre as quais Die weißen Blätter, Die Aktion, Das Kunstblatt e Transition). Foi coeditor, com Georg Grosz, de Der blutige Ernst (1919) e, com Paul Westheim, de Europa-Almanach (1925), além de cofundador da revista Documents (1929) junto com Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, Georges Wildenstein e Georges-Henri Rivière. Pertenceu ao círculo de Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler; conheceu Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris e Fernand Léger. Este artigo se propõe a apresentar algumas das particularidades da escrita e do pensamento de Carl Einstein, sua coerência intelectual, assim como familiarizar o leitor com um âmbito intelectual excepcional, através da rede de diálogos, brechas e aberturas que seus escritos apresentam.

ABSTRACT Vanguard poet who later became a historian and art theorist, cultural mediator between France and Germany, Carl Einstein contributed to several publications, such as Die weißen Blätter, Die Aktion, Das Kunstblatt, and Transition. He was co-editor, together with Georg Grosz, of Der blutige Ernst (1919) and, with Paul Westheim, of Europa-Almanach (1925); along with Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, Georges Wildenstein, and Georges-Henri Rivière, he was also co-founder of the magazine Documents (1929). He belonged to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's circle; he befriended Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, and Fernand Léger. This paper presents some of Carl Einstein's writings, the peculiarities of his intellectual coherence and way of thinking, and aims at acquainting the reader with an exceptional intellectual milieu through the network of dialogues, gaps, and openings introduced by his writings.