Alfred Kubin

Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) was born in Leitmeritz, in Bohemia, the son of a surveyor, lost his mother at the age of ten and began, without completing it, an apprenticeship as a photographer in Klagenfurt. In 1896, he tried to kill himself on his mother's grave; a brief spell in the army ended the following year in a nervous breakdown. A student in Munich from 1898, he became one of the great illustrators of his time, for Poe, Dostoevsky and Hoffmann, and joined the Blue Rider in 1911. Settled in 1906 at Zwickledt, in Upper Austria, he remained there until his death.

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