February 2011 - page 10

“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