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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Alfred Kubin (3,171 results)

Die Windsbraut

Alfred Kubin

Die Windsbraut

Sale Date: November 21, 2017

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Der Sänger

Alfred Kubin

Sale Date: November 21, 2017

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Sturm über Schardenberg (Landschaft im Regen), 1929

Alfred Kubin

Sturm über Schardenberg (Landschaft im Regen), 1929

Sale Date: December 7, 2017

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Death

Alfred Kubin

Sale Date: December 5, 2017

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Threatening Nordland

Alfred Kubin

Threatening Nordland

Sale Date: December 5, 2017

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Tod und die Kranke, 1921

Alfred Kubin

Tod und die Kranke, 1921

Sale Date: December 5, 2017

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Lady in evening gown, 1905–1906

Alfred Kubin

Lady in evening gown, 1905–1906

Sale Date: December 5, 2017

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Don Quixote

Alfred Kubin

Sale Date: November 14, 2017

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Abwürgung

Alfred Kubin

Sale Date: November 21, 2017

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Cheval attaqué par un lion, 1877–1959

Alfred Kubin

Cheval attaqué par un lion, 1877–1959

Sale Date: October 31, 2017

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Death reads the newspaper

Alfred Kubin

Death reads the newspaper

Sale Date: September 26, 2017

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Mappenwerk 'Stilzel', 1930

Alfred Kubin

Mappenwerk 'Stilzel', 1930

Sale Date: August 3, 2017

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Adams Wanderung mit der Schlange, 1930–1935

Alfred Kubin

Adams Wanderung mit der Schlange, 1930–1935

Sale Date: June 29, 2017

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Variationen zu Arthur Honegger Der Totentanz (bk

Alfred Kubin

Variationen zu Arthur Honegger Der Totentanz (bk

Sale Date: June 28, 2017

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Smoking man in a forrest, 1926

Alfred Kubin

Smoking man in a forrest, 1926

Sale Date: June 20, 2017

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Mein Nachbar

Alfred Kubin

Sale Date: June 20, 2017

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Studies (verso and recto)

Alfred Kubin

Studies (verso and recto)

Sale Date: June 20, 2017

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Der Altösterreicher

Alfred Kubin

Der Altösterreicher

Sale Date: June 20, 2017

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mixed lot: 9 paper works

Alfred Kubin

mixed lot: 9 paper works

Sale Date: June 20, 2017

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Traumgestalt, 1939

Alfred Kubin

Traumgestalt, 1939

Sale Date: June 28, 2017

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Untergang, 1947

Alfred Kubin

Untergang, 1947

Sale Date: June 28, 2017

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Alfred Kubin

"der Weiberratsch und Anderes" von Max Peinkofer

Sale Date: June 27, 2017

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NAPOLEON, 1900–1903

Alfred Kubin

NAPOLEON, 1900–1903

Sale Date: June 21, 2017

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Goldener Vogel, 1920

Alfred Kubin

Goldener Vogel, 1920

Sale Date: May 27, 2017

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