82.72 Corpse wased to shore (Gelandete Leiche)

1919

82.158 The Fugitive (Der Fluchtling)

1912

Lithograph, sheet: 16 x 12 1/4" (40.6 x 31 cm); composition: 4 1/2 x 4 1/2" (11.3 x 10.5 cm)

Signed, lr: Kubin; also signed in stone: A Kubin

Lithogrpah, 15 3/4 x 17 3/4" (40 x 45 cm)

Signed, lr: A Kubin

Part of the portfolio 15 Oringinal-zeichnungen, produced by SEMA, nr. 170 or 250

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82.72 Corpse wased to shore (Gelandete Leiche)

1919

Lithograph, sheet: 16 x 12 1/4" (40.6 x 31 cm); composition: 4 1/2 x 4 1/2" (11.3 x 10.5 cm)

Signed, lr: Kubin; also signed in stone: A Kubin

Corpse washed to shore (Gelandete Leiche)  1919

This lithograph is a typical example of Kubin’s eerie, macabre style; Who is the body?  Why is it lying there?  The feeling that the image required some narrative explanation confirms Kubin’s literary predilections and his habit of exorcising his own psychological demons through his art.  (Another lithograph produced for this same Die Schaffenden  portfolio depicts a frightening imaginary view of his mother’s grave- the same grave upon which Kubin had recently attempted suicide.)  Kubin’s illustrative technique is also evident: a fine, agitated line, in which the hose recedes into the background because it is rendered in a fainter lighter hand.