Alchemy & Mysticism

By Alexander Roob

The Hermetic Museum
A fantastic journey through the history of esoteric lore.

The Hermetic Museum takes its readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the mediaeval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabbalists, Rosicrucians and freemasons are shown to be closely linked with early scientific illustrations in the fields of medicine, chemistry, optics and colour theory.

Alexander Roob taught graphics and painting at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. He has investigated various aspects of hermetic symbolism and the underlying history of sequential and documentary methods of drawing.