A Great Artist One Day: Franz Kafka as a Pictorial Artist

When we speak of the work of Franz Kafka (1883-1924), we instinctively think of his literary work. It is less well known that Kafka also loved to draw. From early on his friend and literary executor Max Brod was of the opinion that Kafka was ‘an artist of particular strength and individuality as a draughtsman too’ and that it was unjust merely to regard his drawings as a ‘curiosity’. This book brings together the author’s drawings, accompanied by the relevant texts, providing a unique and comprehensive documentation.

“… an attractively laid out book. The large-format reproductions of the drawings are presented face to face with appropriate passages from Kafka’s writings, diaries and letters, so that the interplay between contemplating the images and our impressions of the texts provides an insight into Kafka’s productive imagination.“ (Hartmut Binder, Neue Zürcher Zeitung)

 

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