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Alfred Kubin |
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10th April 1877 |
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Leitmeritz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Litomerice, Czech Republic] |
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Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (April 10, 1877 - August 20, 1959) was an Austrian expressionist illustrator and occasional writer of Czech ancestry.
From 1898 to 1901, Kubin studied at the art school Schmitt Reutte and at the Munich Academy. In 1906, it acquired the Zwickledt school, where Kubin led a withdrawn life up to his death. Kubin is considered an important representative of expressionism. He mostly created quill drawings (partly hand-coloured) and lithographies of dark, spectral, symbolic forces of expression (often assembled into thematic series of drawings). In 1912, he became associated with the Blaue Reiter (English: Blue Rider) group.
Like Oskar Kokoschka and A. P. Guetersloh, Kubin had both artistic and literary talent. His novel Die Andere Seite (The Other Side) (1909), and his illustrations of literary works by Edgar Allen Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, F. M. Dostoyevsky and others, demonstrate his diverse talents.
Die Andere Seite is an apocalyptic/dystopic fantasy with an atmosphere of claustrophobic absurdity reminiscent of the later writings of Kafka.
His literary works also include:
- The Looking Box, 1925;
- Of the Desk of a Draughtsman, 1939;
- Adventure of an Indication Feather/Spring, 1941;
- Sober Balladen, 1949;
- Evening-red, 1950;
- Fantasies in the Boehmerwald, 1951;
- Daemons and Night Faces, 1959 (autobiography).
Kubin was awarded the Great Austrian State Prize in 1951, and the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1957.
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