Two pictures from Alfred Kubin (Czech Expressionist Illustrator, 1877-1959). Kubin’s style evolved over the many decades of his life and spanned the two world wars. But his subject matter remained almost unchanged, grounded firmly in the non-realities of the artist’s own mind and in the sentiment toward a disappearing world of representative and symbolic art and of his own Bohemian homeland.
Above: “Die Kriegsfackel” (The Torch of War), 1914. An allegory of death, painted after Kubin had lost the hope of a short and easy ending of WW I.
Below: “The Bat” (1902).
