Alfred Kubin - Confessions of a Tortured Soul

Alfred Kubin - Confessions of a Tortured Soul / 288 page hardback, 9.4 x 11.2 inches, from Walther Konig / ISBN 9783753301983 Out-of-print book but some copies available at 50 Watts / light bumps to boards from inbound shipping. *** The first overview in a decade on Kubin’s gothic pageant of dreamworld menace The art of the great Austrian draftsman, illustrator and author Alfred Kubin (1877–1959) appears more current today than ever before; wartime destruction, pandemics, natural disasters and the manipulation of the masses pervade his highly narrative works. Kubin’s nightmarish oeuvre extends Symbolism and the fantastical art of the 19th century and may be considered a precursor to French Surrealism, with its syntheses of actual and imaginary reality, its bleak realms that Kubin often seasoned with humor, irony and exaggeration. Published for an exhibition at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Alfred Kubin: Confessions of a Tortured Soul offers an exploration of Kubin’s oneiric worlds in t