Austrian Expressionist, illustrator and writer Alfred Kubin is featured in the book "Cannabis" by M. Broeckers, in the 'Famous friends of cannabis' section. Kubin is considered an important representative of Expressionism, noted for dark, spectral, symbolic fantasies (often assembled into thematic series of drawings). Like Oskar Kokoschka and Albert Paris Gütersloh, Kubin had both artistic and literary talent. He illustrated works by Edgar Allan Poe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Fyodor Dostoevsky and others. He was also the author of several books, the best known being his novel Die Andere Seite (The Other Side) (1909), an apocalyptic fantasy set in an oppressive imaginary land which had an atmosphere of claustrophobic absurdity reminiscent of the later writings of Franz Kafka. Alfred Kubin was awarded the Great Austrian State Prize in 1951, and the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1957.
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