Alfred Kubin — The Last Wet Nurse | Symbolist Fine Art Print

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Alfred Kubin — The Last Wet Nurse | Symbolist Fine Art PrintAlfred Kubin (18771959) was an Austrian symbolist draughtsman, printmaker, and novelist who produced some of the most psychologically disturbing drawings in the history of art nightmarish visions of death, monsters, chaos, and the absurdity of existence rendered with a scratchy, obsessive pen line that has no equivalent in Western graphic art. A friend of Kandinsky and Paul Klee, and a member of the Blaue Reiter circle, he illustrated dozens of

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) is widely regarded as the father of abstract art

his art maintained an extraordinary consistency of intent: to create an art of pleasure

He produced illustrated albums of birds and flowers of great botanical accuracy and painterly delicacy

constitutes one of the most sustained meditations on perception in the history of art

Jibanananda Das (1899–1954) was a Bengali poet widely considered the greatest lyric voice of the post-Tagore era

and often paradoxical in its message

directly influenced the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists

and dozens more — drew on medieval tapestry

Joost Schmidt (1893–1948) was a German graphic designer and master at the Bauhaus

his paintings are increasingly recognised as precursors of Expressionism and as the authentic visual output of one of the 19th century's most turbulent creative minds

Each print is designed to stop a room: bold

His works are now among the most avidly collected objects in Japanese art

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