Alfred Kubin: The illustrator of the worst possible worlds | culture and entertainment

A pessimistic lucidity about the human being and a traumatic childhood explain the dystopian worlds, the devastated landscapes and the threatening monsters created by Alfred Kubin (1877-1959), a visionary Austrian illustrator whose work moves between horror, fantasy and genre fantastic.

“Perhaps life is just that: a dream and fear,” Kubin wrote in his diary in 1939.

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