Tavern (Kaschemme) from Ein neuer Totentanz (A New Dance of Death)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1947
- Dimensions
- Page: 16 9/16 x 11 5/8" (42 x 29.5 cm); overall: 16 5/8 x 11 15/16 x 11/16" (42.3 x 30.3 x 1.7 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Alfred Kubin
Artist
Drawing
Alfred Kubin was an Austrian draughtsman and printmaker whose ink drawings and lithographs conjured hallucinatory landscapes populated by spectral figures, insects, and architectural forms rendered in dense, obsessive linework. Working primarily in pen and ink from his studio in Upper Austria, Kubin developed a visual language steeped in Symbolism and proto-Expressionism that influenced graphic artists across early twentieth-century Europe. His illustrated books, particularly his 1909 novel The Other Side, merged literary narrative with densely worked fantasy imagery. His formal obsession with line, shadow, and the grotesque remained consistent across six decades of prolific output.
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- Alfred Kubin
- Year
- 1947
- Dimensions
- Page: 16 9/16 x 11 5/8" (42 x 29.5 cm); overall: 16 5/8 x 11 15/16 x 11/16" (42.3 x 30.3 x 1.7 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1947-M097148
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
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- Status
- verified