Alfred Kubin

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Alfred KUBIN was born in Leit­meritz in Bohemia in 1877. He spent his child­hood in Salzburg and Zell am See. He lat­er attend­ed the School of Applied Arts in Salzburg. This was fol­lowed by an appren­tice­ship as a pho­tog­ra­ph­er in Kla­gen­furt, after which he broke off his stud­ies and con­tin­ued his edu­ca­tion as a self-taught artist. From 1899, Kubin stud­ied paint­ing and graph­ic art at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1906, after his mar­riage to Hed­wig Gründler, he moved to Zwick­ledt near Wern­stein am Inn. Numer­ous trips took him to Bohemia, the Balka­ns, south­ern France, Italy, Prague, Berlin, Munich, Zurich and Paris, where he met fel­low artists and friends. Illus­tra­tions of world lit­er­a­ture formed the focus of his graph­ic and draw­ing work. In 1909, Kubin wrote his only nov­el, “The Oth­er Side”. Kubin died in Zwick­ledt in 1959 at the age of 82. 1934 — first exhi­bi­tion at the Welz Gallery.

Alfred KUBIN was born in Leit­meritz in Bohemia in 1877. He spent his child­hood in Salzburg and Zell am See. He lat­er attend­ed the School of Applied Arts in Salzburg. This was fol­lowed by an appren­tice­ship as a pho­tog­ra­ph­er in Kla­gen­furt, after which he broke off his stud­ies and con­tin­ued his edu­ca­tion as a self-taught artist. From 1899, Kubin stud­ied paint­ing and graph­ic art at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1906, after his mar­riage to Hed­wig Gründler, he moved to Zwick­ledt near Wern­stein am Inn. Numer­ous trips took him to Bohemia, the Balka­ns, south­ern France, Italy, Prague, Berlin, Munich, Zurich and Paris, where he met fel­low artists and friends. Illus­tra­tions of world lit­er­a­ture formed the focus of his graph­ic and draw­ing work. In 1909, Kubin wrote his only nov­el, “The Oth­er Side”. Kubin died in Zwick­ledt in 1959 at the age of 82. 1934 — first exhi­bi­tion at the Welz Gallery.

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