Demoni e visioni notturne

by Alfred Kubin

Il motto di questa autobiografia fedele e visionaria potrebbe essere una frase dello stesso Kubin: la fantasia è il destino. Ma, a guardare sotto l'immediata superficie di questa vita d'uomo e di artista, si direbbe viceversa che il destino, nelle sue operazioni e imprevisti, metta meno fantasia di quanta ne mostri in apparenza. Kubin, attraverso tutti i suoi disegni, le sue tempere, le sue illustrazioni, finisce in realtà per illustrare un solo inquietantissimo testo: la storia di una generazione destinata a scontrarsi, in un misto di atavico terrore e di inaudita lucidità, col caos, i mostri, le rivelazioni informi o sublimi della psiche.

Genres: Art

88 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

Kubin was born in Bohemia in the town of Leitmeritz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Litoměřice). From 1892 to 1896, he was apprenticed to the landscape photographer Alois Beer, although he learned little. In 1896, he attempted suicide on his mother's grave, and his short stint in the Austrian army the following year ended with a nervous breakdown. In 1898, Kubin began a period of artistic study at a private academy run by the painter Ludwig Schmitt-Reutte, before enrolling at the Munich Academy in 1899, without finishing his studies there. In Munich, Kubin discovered the works of Odilon Redon, Edvard Munch, James Ensor, Henry de Groux, and Félicien Rops. He was profoundly affected by the prints of Max Klinger, and later recounted: "Here a new art was thrown open to me, which offered free play for the imaginative expression of every conceivable world of feeling. Before putting the engravings away I swore that I would dedicate my life to the creation of similar works". The aquatint technique used by Klinger and Goya influenced the style of his works of this period, which are mainly ink and wash drawings of fantastical, often macabre subjects. Kubin produced a small number of oil paintings in the years between 1902 and 1910, but thereafter his output consisted of pen and ink drawings, watercolors, and lithographs. In 1911, he became associated with the Blaue Reiter group, and exhibited with them in the Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin in 1913. After that time, he lost contact with the artistic avant-garde. (From Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Charles Beauregard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alfred Kubin's autobiography: He lived a very interesting life, similar to Egon Schiele in ways.

[Dimitri Giunchi · Rating 2 out of 5]

L'opera di Kubin è molto interessante, ma questa autobiografia è piuttosto piatta e poco accattivante

[Esbil · Rating 5 out of 5]

Introspettivo e di grande ispirazione.
Autobiografia, intensa, immediata ed efficace.

[Valentina Ariano · Rating 4 out of 5]

E questo è forse l’ultimo vero significato dell’artista: gettare nella sua creazione un velo sull’assurdo nonsenso della vita, un sottile velo che copra l’abisso di forme caotiche, che per noi non sono assolutamente nulla in confronto a quel mondo “immaginato” che rappresenta la nostra verità, sia pur essa una pura illusione nell’eterno fluire del tempo.

[L. · Rating 4 out of 5]

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