Search Results: Expressionism from Charles Agvent

München: Hans von Weber-Verl., [1903]. First Edition. Hardcover. Title page soiled; prints are Fine but for a few minor turned corners. Housed in a soiled, Very Good slipcase. Quite scarce. Alfred Kubin. Large (15" x 18-1/2") string-tied black cloth portfolio with the artist's name in gilt on the front cover and containing 15 loose prints (14" x 17-1/2") from original drawings with the artist's printed signature and title beneath each image. The first independent publication by the artist and the first published work by Hans von Weber. Kubin, an Austrian (1877 - 1959) Expressionist artist, seems to have been influenced by the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer on suffering and misfortune. His work is dark, unflinching, and symbolic. One print, "The Hour of Death" depicts the scything hand of the clock as it beheads men as it turns, the severed heads caught in a net below. Another, "The Fate of Mankind" shows a woman with a cloth over her head sweeping the living towards the cliff of their deaths.… Read More

(Staten Island): (Martino), [1996]. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") , cloth, 384 pages. Includes all the lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts--267 entires in all with 275 illustrations.