Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (April 10, 1877 – August 20, 1959) was an Austrian Expressionist, illustrator and occasional writer.
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 little. In 1896 he attempted suicide, and a short stint in the Austrian Army the following year ended with a nervous ...
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Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (April 10, 1877 – August 20, 1959) was an Austrian Expressionist, illustrator and occasional writer.
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 little. In 1896 he attempted suicide, and a short stint in the Austrian Army the following year ended with a nervous breakdown. In 1898 Kubin began a period of artistic study at a private academy run by the painter Ludwig Schmitt-Reutte, before enrolling at the Munich Academy in 1899. In Munich, Kubin discovered the works of Odilon Redon, James Ensor, and Félicien Rops. He was profoundly affected by the prints of Max Klinger, and later recounted: "Here a new art was thrown open to me, which offered free play for the imaginative expression of every conceivable world of feeling. Before putting the engravings away I swore that I would dedicate my life to the...
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