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The Jewish sympathies of early modernists     (www.h-net.org)
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https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=45704

Consider this guy. Famous for breaking of architectural conventions, friendly with Jews, probably a pedo...

It's fascinating to read about the adversity his tiny revolt against prevailing aesthetics caused in Austrian society. He argued it was more pure. More modest. Entirely reasonable. But also dangerously subversive.

In the end he advocated nothing less than to abandon tradition which is also the first step to nihilism. Of course people complained and wanted him out. This is what a society with something to lose acted like.