Alfred Kubin - Ein Totentanz (Dance of Death) - Bruno Cassirer 1918
Alfred Kubin (10 April 1877 – 20 August 1959) was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of occidental Symbolism and Expressionism. With Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Gabriele Münter, he founds Der Blaue Reiter association.
Kubin's drawings depict a submissive humanity, overtaken by obscure and oppressive forces, staged through the recurring symbolism of the monster and the deformed, the artist making himself "the organizer of the uncertain, the trembling, the penumbra, the dreamlike"; they link sex and the death drive, and bear witness to a certain madness.
Published in 1918, Die Blätter mit dem Tod heralds the horrors of the starting war.
Bruno Cassirer, Berlin - 1918 (original edition)
24p in folio - GER - 35.5x28cm - 50 copies on handmade paper - binding damaged, very old, marked by time - one page is missing
Kubin's drawings depict a submissive humanity, overtaken by obscure and oppressive forces, staged through the recurring symbolism of the monster and the deformed, the artist making himself "the organizer of the uncertain, the trembling, the penumbra, the dreamlike"; they link sex and the death drive, and bear witness to a certain madness.
Published in 1918, Die Blätter mit dem Tod heralds the horrors of the starting war.
Bruno Cassirer, Berlin - 1918 (original edition)
24p in folio - GER - 35.5x28cm - 50 copies on handmade paper - binding damaged, very old, marked by time - one page is missing