WRITER

Alfred Kubin

1877 - 1959

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Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (10 April 1877 – 20 August 1959) was an Austrian artist, printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Kubin has received more than 356,770 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alfred Kubin is the 955th most popular writer (up from 1,152nd in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 135th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Czech Writer.

Alfred Kubin is most famous for his dark and macabre drawings, which often depict the psychological and physical horrors of the human condition.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Alfred Kubin, book illustrator
1950
Die andere Seite
1908
Alfred Kubin
1977
Zeichner Alfred Kubin
1950
Aus meinem Leben
Artists
1974
The Other Side
1967

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alfred Kubin ranks 955 out of 7,302. Before him are Vātsyāyana, Virginia Satir, Andrew of Crete, Johannes Tauler, Patrick White, and Sin Saimdang. After him are George Steiner, Panait Istrati, Al-Mutanabbi, Ivan Gundulić, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Sulpicius Severus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Alfred Kubin ranks 27. Before him are Arthur Cecil Pigou, Enrico De Nicola, Oswald Avery, Karl Abraham, Mykola Leontovych, and Niceto Alcalá-Zamora. After him are André Maginot, Plutarco Elías Calles, Ernst von Dohnányi, Aga Khan III, Rudolf Hilferding, and Henry Norris Russell. Among people deceased in 1959, Alfred Kubin ranks 23. Before him are Buddy Holly, Alfred Schütz, Errol Flynn, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Enrico De Nicola, and Ritchie Valens. After him are Raphael Lemkin, Mike Hawthorn, Mario Lanza, Edward C. Tolman, Ettore Majorana, and John Foster Dulles.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Alfred Kubin ranks 117 out of 1,200. Before him are Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897), Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1840), Stanislav Grof (1931), Elizabeth of Bohemia (1292), Jan Švankmajer (1934), and Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867). After him are Anne of Bohemia (1366), Zdeněk Miler (1921), Daniel Swarovski (1862), Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821), Agnes of Bohemia (1211), and Franz Reichelt (1879).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Alfred Kubin ranks 15. Before him are Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), Karl Kraus (1874), Julius Fučík (1903), and Jan Neruda (1834). After him are Adalbert Stifter (1805), Cosmas of Prague (1045), Josef Čapek (1887), Guido Adler (1855), Ivan Klíma (1931), and Egon Kisch (1885).

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