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Alfred Kubin

Alfred Kubin, Austrian author and illustrator (died 1959)

Born
April 10, 1877
Died
August 20, 1959
Zodiac sign
Aries
Birth year
1877

About Alfred Kubin

Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin was an Austrian artist, printmaker, illustrator, and writer of a single novel, The Other Side. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism. In Munich, Kubin discovered the works of Odilon Redon, Edvard Munch, James Ensor, Henry de Groux, and Félicien Rops.

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The world when Alfred Kubin was born

Alfred Kubin was born in 1877. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineReconstruction ends — federal troops leave the South
  • Technology milestoneThomas Edison invents the phonograph
  • Notable inventionPhonograph — talking machine
  • World population~1.57B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderRutherford B. Hayes
  • U.S. population44.2M

1877 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Alfred Kubin's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18772026
Population44.2M341 million

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