The artist Alfred Kubin

Hey dear community, at the beginning I would like to welcome you all to my new post and hope you had a day that was full of positive experiences! In this post, I would like to talk a little about art history and hope you can expand your knowledge.

Here you can see two works by the Austrian artist Alfred Kubin (1877 - 1959) who was known as a diverse personality and made drawings and was also known as an author and he is also considered a representative of Expressionism and was also influenced by symbolism. His works are characterized by imaginative ideas and he was known for his dreamy works and he did not have an easy childhood and had to deal with difficult experiences in his youth early on and he initially learned photography and later decided to give himself more to painting and attended an art school in Munich. He was very idiosyncratic and attended the school too irregularly and decided to teach most of it himself and he had various sources of inspiration and a few years later he visited his first exhibition in the city of Berlin and he quickly gained a lot of attention for his imaginative works and he also experimented a lot when it came to the use of colors or stylistic devices. During his early time as an artist, hundreds of works of art were created and in 1906 he married and decided to withdraw strongly for some time to write his own book and his self-created illustrations helped him to great fame and he was also noticed by other authors who used his services as an book illustrator. Often his works were characterized by numerous occult influences and he liked to deal with the human psyche as well as compulsive inclinations and the abysses of human emotions. He was known for being a lot in artistic circles and during his life he visited numerous of different exhibitions and also received numerous awards and was regularly praised for his unique form of art.

Thank you for the visit and I hope you could learn something new about art history! I captured these pictures with my Camera Sony Alpha 6000 plus 55-210 mm lens.