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Alfred Kubin
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"Much surrealist imagery has a dreamlike, even nightmarish quality, and the same may be said for the work of many of their symbolist predecessors, such as Arnold Böcklin, Jean Delville, James Ensor, Alfred Kubin, Max Klinger, Odilon Redon, and Félicien Rops. Biography of kubinOften these artists specify the importance of the dream for their work by including the words dream or night in their titles (e.g., Alfred Kubin's ."--Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography (2013) by Helene E. Roberts |
Alfred Kubin (1877 – 1959) was an Austrian artist and occasional writer, known for his macabre and fantasticillustrations and his dystopian writings.
Biography
Kubin was born in Bohemia in the town of Litoměřice, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From 1892 to 1896, he was apprenticed to the landscape photographer Alois Beer, although he learned litt