125th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2002 - 87 Euro Cent

Alfred Kubin was born in 1877 in Leitmeritz, today Czech Republic, worked as a graphic artist, painter and writer. At the age of ten, he lost his mother, possibly failing high school, and did not fare much better at apprenticing to a photographer. His obsession with philosophical literature and hypnosis nervously disrupted him so much that he attempted to commit suicide at his mother's grave in Zell am See. Kubin acquired his education as a painter and graphic artist at the Schmitt-Reute art school and the Munich academy. In 1906 he bought a country house in Zwickledt, municipality Wernstein, Innviertel, where a large part of his imaginative works was created, reflecting his multifarious approach to the occult, the eerie and the cruel. He had a special fondness for pen and ink drawings, which he occasionally colored with watercolors. After Kubin's death in 1959, the found designs, book illustrations and picture sequences were transferred from the estate to the Upper Austrian Provincial Museum. The Albertina's Graphic Arts Collection received individual drawings and graphic sheets. The house in Zwickledt in Upper Austria went to the state of Upper Austria, where it museal documented the life of the artist in his seclusion. For the design of the gravure gravure Maria Siegl served the pen drawing "The 80th Birthday - the Marianneum - 1957" from the o.ö. Landergalerie as a template. Kubin has integrated himself into the picture, it was his own 80th birthday.