Abstract
In this study I attempted to draw certain parallels between the texts of Friedrich Nietzsche and Alfred Kubin. Both authors were interested in other dimensions of human existence as well as devoting attention to anything that leads to an examination of the divine and all things related to it.
Boths authors' works can be read as dark variations on the themes of weaker/stronger, controlling/controlled, passive/active, real/ unreal, and good/bad. In these polarities there is the motif of the eternal principle hidden that is impossible to escape; and of course there is that other theorem of Nietzsche's of "the return of the selfsame" which keeps repeating itself and therefore appears as fatal.
The premise of this work is the perception and cognition of the world (reality as illusion, dreams that take the form of reality experienced by us, their mutual reflection, etc.), while the second part is focused on the field of art, beauty, religion and their influence on human life.