Alfred Kubin

(Austrian, 1877–1959)

Alfred Kubin was a Bohemian printmaker and illustrator who became an important figure of both the Symbolist and Expressionist movements. His inventive black-and-white drawings often featured fantastical or morbid elements, and depicted supernatural creatures and sexual violence. Born on April 10, 1877 in Leitmeritz, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic), Kubin had an emotionally unstable childhood, attempting suicide and suffering a nervous breakdown before the age of 20. Upon moving to Munich in 1899, he was introduced to the works of Francisco de Goya and Max Klinger, the latter having a particularly profound impact on Kubin. He began producing nightmarish ink-and-wash drawings, and briefly became affiliated with the Russian artist émigré group, the Der Blaue Reiter, which included Wassily Kandinsky and Marianne Werefkin. Kubin was perhaps best known for illustrating the German editions of books by Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky. During rise of Nazism in Germany, his work was considered degenerate; he retreated into solitude and lived in a castle in Zwickledt, Upper Austria. He was awarded the City of Vienna Prize for Visual Arts in 1950, and died at his home on August 20, 1959.

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Francisco Goya, Paul Klee, Max Klinger, Franz Marc, Edvard Munch

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Der Vampyr, 1938

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Der Vampyr, 1938

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Der Vampyr, 1938

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Der Vampyr, 1938

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Die Chronik, 1940

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Die Chronik, 1940

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Der kranke Hund

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Der kranke Hund

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Beichte

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Beichte

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Die Chronik, 1940

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Die Chronik, 1940

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Der kranke Hund

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Der kranke Hund

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Der Vampyr, 1938

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Der Vampyr, 1938

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Mixed lot: three works (Der Tropenforscher,...

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Mixed lot: three works (Der Tropenforscher,...

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Mixed lot: 13 litographs for Otto Stoessl..., 1925

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Mixed lot: 13 litographs for Otto Stoessl..., 1925

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Mixed lot: three works (Tatzelwürmer, Der Büßer...

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Mixed lot: three works (Tatzelwürmer, Der Büßer...

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Mixed lot: three works (Frühlingsvision, Tod als

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Mixed lot: three works (Frühlingsvision, Tod als

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Mixed lot: three works (Die Hexe, Das...

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Mixed lot: three works (Die Hexe, Das...

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Mixed lot: three works (Der blinde Pauker,...

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Mixed lot: three works (Der blinde Pauker,...

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Mixed lot: three works (Judith, Wildnis und Der...

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Mixed lot: three works (Judith, Wildnis und Der...

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Mixed lot: two studies for Thomas Hardy: Der , 1928

Alfred Kubin

Mixed lot: two studies for Thomas Hardy: Der , 1928

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Study for November

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Study for November

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Münchhausen on a journey, 1944

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Münchhausen on a journey, 1944

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Illustration for Mynona: Unterm Leichentuch, 1927

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Illustration for Mynona: Unterm Leichentuch, 1927

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Hypnosis, 1921

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Hypnosis, 1921

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Studies recto and verso

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Studies recto and verso

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The dancer and fighting Russians (studies,..., 1918

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The dancer and fighting Russians (studies,..., 1918

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Postman, 1930–1939

Alfred Kubin

Postman, 1930–1939

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Entwurfsskizze aus Hauffs Märchen, 1910

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Entwurfsskizze aus Hauffs Märchen, 1910

Sale Date: June 17, 2019

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