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Keywords
Alfred Kubin, symbolism, graphics, book illustration, Dostoyevsky, Austria, artist, Blue rider, New Munich art association, The otherside, Vasilii Kandinsky
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Kushnareva, A.V. (2016) ‘Life of clairvoyant of decadence: introduction in the biography of Alfred Kubin: УДК 7.036’, The Art of Eurasia, (2), pp. 85–92. doi:10.25712/ASTU.2518-7767.2016.02.008.
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Abstract
The article is about a biography of insufficiently explored in Russia Austrian artist, illustrator and writer Alfred Kubin. The artist was a member of art groups as the "New Munich Art Association" and the "Blue Rider". Wassily Kandinsky admired his work and put Kubin in line with the well-known Symbolists, especially with Maurice Maeterlinck. Kubin has a prolific artist, he has published several albums of prints and illustrated dozens of books, including works of Dostoevsky, Gogol, Poe, Hoffmann, Jean Paul, Georg Trakl, Voltaire, Balzac, Flaubert, Andersen and others. A books illustrated by Kubin is not published in Russia, except for his own novel "The Other Side", was first published in Russian in 2000. This article is the first step in the study of Alfred Kubin creativity. This is a biographical entry based on a variety of sources in German and English.
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