“Sterben (Dying),” circa 1899
The Austrian artist Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) began his career just as Freud released “The Interpretation of Dreams.”
Accordingly, the Neue Galerie’s “Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897-1909” is replete with the terrors of the freshly analyzed psyche.
Photo: Photograph courtesy of Alfred Kubin/Neue Galerie, New York
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? Alfred Lord Tennyson
True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient
