Images of the Grotesque and Arabesque: The Discovery of Kafka’s drawings

Over 100 completely unknown drawings by Franz Kafka of fascinating figures, shifting from the realistic to the fantastic, the grotesque, the uncanny and the carnivalesque have been made accessible in Prof Andreas Kilcher’s highly acclaimed book Franz Kafka: The Drawings.  The drawings illuminate a previously unknown side of the quintessential modernist author. Three fascinating stories can be told about Kafka’s drawings: the story of their transmission, the story of Kafka as a draftsman, and the story of his drawing in relation to his writing. Hosted at the German Historical Institute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ and online via Zoom 6.30pm, June 16th 2022