Alfred Kubin — The Plague | Symbolist Fine Art Print

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Alfred Kubin — The Plague | Symbolist Fine Art PrintAlfred Kubin (18771959) was an Austrian symbolist draughtsman, printmaker, and novelist who produced some of the most psychologically disturbing drawings in the history of art nightmarish visions of death, monsters, chaos, and the absurdity of existence rendered with a scratchy, obsessive pen line that has no equivalent in Western graphic art. A friend of Kandinsky and Paul Klee, and a member of the Blaue Reiter circle, he illustrated dozens of

" Over his lifetime he created more than 9

producing portraits of Ottoman and Middle Eastern figures of exceptional presence and technical authority

and Rosicrucian cosmologist whose elaborate engraved diagrams — published in his monumental Utriusque Cosmi (1617–1621) — constitute one of the most visually ambitious works of Western esotericism

Egon Schiele (1890–1918) was the supreme Expressionist of the Vienna Secession's younger generation — a painter of psychological intensity

A graphic designer

A punchy single-word typographic print in the Bauhaus tradition of graphic reduction — where one word

architectural inscriptions

His Veiled Circassian Beauty remains one of the most technically audacious paintings ever made

His works are among the most reproduced images in the history of esoteric thought

and the Normandy countryside

and visionary intensity

executed with careful observation and elegant graphic technique

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