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A square, hardcover art book titled KUBIN, presented at an angle on a white background. The dark cover features a macabre illustration of a figure with a skeletal ribcage and a large, fleshy belly. The title is in large, bold, yellow letters. The spine is also bright yellow.
A haunting, monochromatic drawing of a surreal scene. A headless man in a shirt and trousers stands with his back to the viewer on a barren landscape. To his left, a large, disembodied head rests on the ground, its face frozen in an expression of anguish with an open mouth and wide eyes looking up.
The cover of a book titled KUBIN in large, yellow letters. The cover art is a dark, textured illustration of a surreal figure with a woman's head, a skeletal torso and arms, and a large, swollen belly, set against a background with radiating lines.
An open book displayed on a white surface. The left page features text with the title FROM MONSTER WOMEN TO TOXIC MASCULINITY. The right page displays a surreal, monochromatic illustration of two large, grotesque figures on pedestals, with a crescent moon between them and a smaller figure operating a device below.
An overhead shot of an open book. The left page is bright yellow with the capitalized black text ALIENATION FROM NATURE AND ORIGIN. The right page has a grainy, black-and-white illustration of a stylized, seated figure with an elongated, featureless head against a dark background.
An overhead shot of an open art book on pages 128 and 129. The left page shows a drawing of a fantastical, long-necked creature nursing its brood. The right page displays a dark, monochromatic drawing of a creature with a human-like head and a long, serpentine body slithering over a landscape.
An open art book displays two paintings in a muted, somber style. On the left, titled The Fat Sin, a robed figure with a large belly and a staff stands beside a nude woman with red hair. On the right, a darker, abstract painting titled The Trapped Man depicts a figure seemingly emerging from a confining space.
A two-panel image. The left panel is solid pale yellow with the word ESTRANGEMENT in black capital letters. The right panel is a dark, textured, monochrome drawing of a seated, bare-chested figure whose head is an abstract, elongated, and featureless form.
A two-page book spread with two monochromatic, surreal drawings. On the left, titled The Large Head 1899, a giant head is supported by a neck that transforms into the tangled, struggling bodies of small human figures. On the right, titled Exiles after 1900, a tall, gaunt figure stands over a woman with long dark hair who is kneeling and slumped toward the ground in despair.
A book page displays two dark, atmospheric paintings by Alfred Kubin, dated circa 1906. On the left, Vision shows a ghostly, disembodied head with spiky blond hair and closed eyes. On the right, Fireworks is an abstract, swirling composition of ethereal, light-filled forms against a black background.
A two-page spread from an art book featuring two monochrome, surreal drawings. On the left, page 128 shows a drawing titled The Brood, depicting an elongated, cat-like creature with a long neck nursing a litter of its young. On the right, page 129 shows a drawing titled Wrong Way, which portrays a monstrous creature with a human head and a long, scaly, serpentine body moving through a dark landscape.
A book page displays two artworks. On the left, a monochrome drawing titled On the 1001st Night, ca. 1900, shows a figure in a desert with cacti as a large winged creature hovers above. On the right, a muted color painting titled Oriental Princess in a Park, ca. 1905, shows a princess in an ornate gown seated in a lush, dark park.
A page from a book showing Alfred Kubin's sepia-toned etching, Scenes in Hell, circa 1900. The artwork depicts a surreal and grotesque hellscape inspired by Hieronymus Bosch. In a large, crowded room, various figures, both human and monstrous, are engaged in acts of torture. Notable scenes include a pregnant woman being sawn in half, a person being inflated with a bellows, a man being crushed under a large weight, and a creature tending a boiler.
Alfred Kubin
The Aesthetics of Evil
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By (artist): Alfred Kubin
Designed by: Maria Anna Friedl, Wien
Edited by: Elisabeth Dutz
August 2024, 232 Pages, 180 Ills.
Hardcover
252mm x 254mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5773-7

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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
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