Alfred Kubin "Drawings, 1897-1909"
Neue Galerie
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The Neue Galerie New York opens the exhibition “Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897-1909,” featuring over 100 works on paper by the artist Alfred Kubin. This is the first major museum exhibition of his work ever held in the United States, and it focuses on his early drawings, watercolors, and litho-graphs, which are often nightmarish.
Though a contemporary of artist Gustav Klimt and designer Josef Hoffmann, fellow Austrian Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) eschewed the decorative impulses found in their work. Instead, inspired by the art of Francisco Goya, Félicien Rops, Max Klinger, James Ensor, and Edvard Munch, Kubin produced dark, hallucinatory visions of violence and eroticism. Literature served as an inspiration as well, and Kubin drew from the masterpieces of Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Nikolai Gogol. Illustrations from Kubin’s bizarre 1908 novel The Other Side will be included in the exhibition.
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from September 25, 2008 to January 26, 2009