Word: kubin
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...Alfred Kubin's two drawings, Edge of the World and Organ Grinder, are openly illustrative without being obvious. Next to the portraits by the much-praised Kokoschka with their hesitant drawing which often falls far short of any satisfying conclusion, Kubin's unpretentious drawings are refreshing. Nevertheless, whatever qualifications one makes in Kokoschka's case, his merits become evident when compared with the unhappy commercialism of Paul Kleinschmidt's At the Bar or Oskar Schlemmer's Three Figures...
...Paris they met Matisse and the other Fauves, the "Wild Beasts" who revolted against impressionism. When they returned to Munich in 1908, they settled in an apartment in suburban Schwabing, which became the headquarters of the Munich Fauves. Paul Klee lived two houses away, and near by were Alfred Kubin, Franz Marc, Alexei Jawlensky, August Macke. In painting excursions through southern Bavaria, Kandinsky and Gabriele discovered the village of Murnau, where they bought a house, called to this day the Russenhaus, with a fine view of the Alpine foothills. Kandinsky held court there too. "Every day is like a festival...
...Blue Horses. As Kandinsky developed from his Fauve to his abstract period, conservatives in his group rebelled. Kandinsky, Gabriele, Marc and Kubin walked out on them, soon to be joined by Jawlensky, Campendonck, Klee and Composer Arnold Schoenberg, who at the time fancied himself a painter. They formed der Blaue Reiter group. The name was thought up by Kandinsky and Marc over a cup of coffee. "We both loved blue," Kandinsky later recalled. "Marc loved horses, I loved riders. So the name came naturally...