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An angled, high-angle, full shot of a square hardcover book titled Kubin on a white background. The dark cover features a macabre, sketchy illustration of a floating figure with a human head, a skeletal torso, and a large, fleshy abdomen. The title is in a large, bold, yellow font. The spine is yellow with black text.
A sepia-toned, surrealist drawing of a headless body standing on barren ground, turned away from the viewer. To the left, a severed head rests on the ground, its face contorted in an expression of anguish with an open mouth and wide eyes looking upwards.
A book titled KUBIN in large yellow letters. The cover art is a dark, unsettling black and white illustration of a skeletal figure with a human head and a large, distended abdomen. The figure is set against a textured, dark background with lines radiating from behind it. The book is displayed upright on a white surface.
An open book with German text on the left page and a surrealist black-and-white illustration on the right. The drawing features two large, round, monstrous figures standing on stone pedestals. Between them is a crescent moon, and in the foreground, a smaller human figure is hunched over.
An open book viewed from above against a white background. The left page is a solid, vibrant yellow with the German text Entfremdung von Natur und Ursprung. The right page features a grainy, black-and-white illustration of a stylized, seated figure with an elongated, featureless head against a dark backdrop.
An open art book lying flat, showing a two-page spread. The left page features a drawing of a mythical, long-necked feline nursing a litter of small creatures. The right page displays a darker illustration of a creature with a human head and a serpentine body. Both pages include German text.
A two-page spread from a book about the artist Alfred Kubin. The left page displays a table of contents in German, while the right page shows a bleak, sepia-toned illustration. The artwork depicts a desolate landscape under a dark sky, with numerous bodies scattered across barren hills leading to a ruined fortress in the distance.
A two-page book spread with German text on the left, titled ALFRED KUBIN ÄSTHETIK DES BÖSEN. The right page features a sepia-toned drawing of a gaunt, muscular warrior in a plumed helmet, lunging forward aggressively while wielding a small axe and carrying a shield on his back.
A book spread with German text on the left page and a surreal, monochromatic drawing by Alfred Kubin on the right. The drawing shows two massive, bloated figures with thin legs standing on separate block-like platforms. Below them, a small, emaciated figure carries a pole on their shoulder while on a lower platform. A crescent moon hangs in the dark, textured sky.
A two-page spread from an art book. On the left, a painting titled Die fette Sünde shows three figures: a bald person in a white robe with a large belly holding a staff, a nude woman with red hair, and a cloaked figure in the background. On the right, an abstract, monochromatic painting titled Der Eingezwängte depicts a dark figure compressed between large, organic forms.
A two-panel image. The left panel is pale yellow with the word ENTFREMDUNG in a black serif font. The right panel is a dark, monochromatic, and grainy drawing of a seated, muscular, and nude humanoid figure with an elongated, abstract head.
A two-page spread from an art book featuring two sepia-toned drawings. On the left, titled Der große Kopf, is a surreal image of a large head in profile, its neck transforming into the bodies and legs of many small, naked figures walking away. On the right, titled Vertriebene, is a somber scene of a tall, gaunt man in a tunic standing over a distraught woman with long dark hair who is kneeling on the ground.
A page from an art book showing two paintings by Alfred Kubin from around 1906. On the left, in Vision, a pale, ghostly face with spiky blonde hair and closed eyes floats against a dark background, near a fiery red form. On the right, in Fireworks, is a dark, abstract composition with swirling, luminous shapes suggesting a chaotic explosion or mythical creatures.
A two-page spread from a German art book. On the left, a brown-toned drawing titled Das Gezüchte shows a mythical, long-necked, feline creature nursing its litter. On the right, a dark drawing titled Abweg depicts a monster with a human head and a long, scaly, serpentine body in a murky landscape with bones.
A book page displaying two artworks side by side. On the left is a monochrome drawing of a person in a desert with cacti, looking up at a large, winged creature in the sky. On the right is a color painting of a princess in an ornate, colorful gown sitting in a lush, dark park.
A page from a book featuring Alfred Kubin's 1900 ink drawing, Höllenszenen. The black and white, surrealist composition depicts a crowded and chaotic hellscape. Various human and demonic figures are subjected to bizarre tortures using strange machinery, including a pregnant woman being sawn apart, bodies stretched on racks, and figures being churned in vats, in a style reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch.
Alfred Kubin
Die Ästhetik des Bösen
€ 44.00
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Edited by: Elisabeth Dutz
Graphic Design: Maria Anna Friedl, Wien
Artist: Alfred Kubin
Texts by: Elisabeth Dutz, Brigitte Holzinger, Natalie Lettner
German
August 2024, 232 Pages, 180 Ills.
Hardcover
250mm x 250mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5772-0

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de


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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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