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Alfred Kubin was an outstanding Austrian engraver, illustrator and writer, and a prominent representative of the Symbolic and Expressionist trends in the visual arts in the first half of the 20th century. Alfred Kubin's works are full of phantasmagoric and grotesque depictions of dreams, motifs of desolation and fear.


Alfred Kubin was an outstanding Austrian engraver, illustrator and writer, and a prominent representative of the Symbolic and Expressionist trends in the visual arts in the first half of the 20th century. Alfred Kubin's works are full of phantasmagoric and grotesque depictions of dreams, motifs of desolation and fear.


Alfred Kubin was an outstanding Austrian engraver, illustrator and writer, and a prominent representative of the Symbolic and Expressionist trends in the visual arts in the first half of the 20th century. Alfred Kubin's works are full of phantasmagoric and grotesque depictions of dreams, motifs of desolation and fear.


Alfred Manessier was a French painter and graphic artist, a representative of the New Paris School and the Salon de May.
He was educated at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was fascinated by Cubism, Surrealism, Fauvism, like many artists of that generation. But at the same time he studied with the old masters and with the coryphaei of Impressionism. In the middle of his life, Manassier reconsidered his views and turned to religious subjects and landscapes with sea views. He became involved in stained glass and tapestry art.

