Alfred Kubin

Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (1877-1959) was an Austrian printmaker illustrator, Kubin is considered an important representative of symbolism and Expressionism.He is noted for dark, spectral, symbolic fantasies, often assembled into thematic series of drawings.  The aquatint technique used by Klinger and Goya influenced the style of his works of this period, which are mainly ink and wash drawings of fantastical, often macabre subjects. Kubin produced a small number of oil paintings in the years between 1902 and 1910, but thereafter his output consisted of pen and ink drawing and lithograph, In 1911, he became associated with the Blaue Reiter group, and exhibited with them in Galerie Der Strum in Berlin in 1913.