Kubin Alfred (1877–1959), Austrian author and illustrator. His disturbing art with its Bosch‐like grotesques is said to reflect the search for meaning amid contemporary social, technological, and political upheavals. He was fascinated by dreams and the subconscious in both his verbal and his visual art, detailed in Die andere Seite (The Other Side, 1909). He illustrated a work about Münchausen's adventures and numerous fantastic tales by Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe, and E. T. A. Hoffmann.

Bibliography

• Kallir, Jane, Alfred Kubin: Visions from the Other Side (c.1983).
• Rhein, Phillip H., The Verbal and Visual Art of Alfred Kubin (1989).
• Raabe, Paul, Alfred Kubin (1977).

— Mary Louise Ennis

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