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Alfred Kubin

Die Ästhetik des Bösen

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Edited by: Elisabeth Dutz

Artist: Alfred Kubin

Texts by: Elisabeth Dutz, Brigitte Holzinger, Natalie Lettner

Graphic Design: Maria Anna Friedl, Wien

German

August 2024, 232 Pages, 180 Ills.

Hardcover

252mm x 253mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5772-0

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Drawing obsessions

The ALBERTINA modern exhibition presents Alfred Kubin’s view of the world of evil, the predominant theme of his life and work. The aesthetics of evil prove to be the antithesis of a tranquil idyll for him, one of the most outstanding drawing artists of the twentieth century. Trapped in his fantasies, he finds himself confronted with uncanny dream apparitions and a pronounced fear of the feminine, the night, and fate. This catalogue explores Kubin’s graphic cosmos of the ominous, his nightmares and obsessions and the iconography of evil.ALFRED KUBIN (1877–1959) was an important Austrian draughtsman and graphic artist. In 1898, after a traumatic childhood in Zell am See and a series of mental crises, he began his artistic training in Munich. Kubin worked through his nightmares and obsessions in a large number of fantastic drawings.

EXHIBITION
ALBERTINA modern, Vienna
August 14, 2024–January 11, 2025