Im kollektiven Gedächtnis ist der Künstler Günter Brus eher als “wilder Hund” eingefächert. Man mag an seine Teilnahme an der Aktion Kunst und Revolution (1968) in einem Hörsaal der Universität Wien denken, bei der die Wiener Aktionisten auch mit Exkrement hantierten. Oder an die verausgabungsvolle Performance Zerreißprobe (1970), bei der Brus zunächst Urin in eine per Rasierklinge geöffnete Wunde goss und später mutwillig ausrutschte und hinknallte, sich blutend und leidend am Boden wand. >>Volltext (c) STANDARD, 2018
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Biographic loss & the fantastic in art
Kubin, whose father was a land surveyor, was born in Leitmeritz (Litoměřice), Bohemia, in 1877. He spent his early days in Salzburg and Zell am See, Austria. In 1887 his mother died. From 1892-96 he was a photographer’s apprentice in Klagenfurt. Then he started studying Fine Arts in Munich in 1898 and dropped out again in 1899. However, Kubin remained in the Bavarian capital and joined the local art scene. His father died in 1908.
After seeing Max Klinger´s series of etchings entitled Paraphrase über den Fund eines Handschuhs (“Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove“) in 1899, the young artist lived through a veritable creative frenzy, an “invasion of black and white visions” which lasted until 1903. He soon acquired a reputation for being a graphic artist and book illustrator specializing in uncanny, grotesque and allegorical subjects. “I am the organizer of the uncertain, hermaphroditic, shadowy, dream-like,” he wrote in a letter on 9 January 1908.
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