The Primal Scream
Alfred Kubin
(Austrian, 1877 - 1959)
The Primal Scream
Date1903
Mediumfacsimile print
Dimensionsimage: 17 5/16 × 13 3/8 in. (44 × 34 cm)
ClassificationPRINTS
Credit LineSBMA, Museum Purchase, Alfred Moir Endowment Fund
Object number2022.2.9
Collection
- European
Sub-Collection(s)
- Expressionism
- Symbolism
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Not on viewLabel Text
The characteristic feature of this strange art is that it attempts to depict the extrasensory, to provide symbols for the mysterious forces to which we are subjected in our daily lives but which we do not know—indeed, that is revealed to us only in wild dreams and fantasies, in states of clairvoyant nervous strain.
—Georg Hermann on Kubin’s art in a review published in Berliner Illustrirte, 1903
