only literary work was Die andere Seite () (1908), a fantastic novel set in an oppressive imaginary land. The novel has an atmosphere of claustrophobic absurdity similar to the writings of Franz Kafka, who admired the book. The illustrations for the book were originally intended for The Golem by Gustav Meyrink, but as that book was delayed, Kubin instead worked his illustrations into his own novel. Nazi-looted art In 2016, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich restituted, to the heirs of Max and Hertha Morgenstern, 16 drawings by Kubin which had been sold under duress in Vienna in July 1938 as a result of Nazi persecution of Jews following Austria's Anschluss with Nazi Germany. Lenbachhaus had acquired them from Kurt Otte, a Kubin collector in Hamburg in 1971. The German Lost Art Foundation lists 24 artworks by Kubin in its database, many of which are from the Found-Object Reports from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden which launched Nazi-era provenance research in 2008. Honours and awards City of Vienna Prize for Visual Arts (1950) Grand Austrian State Prize for Visual Art (1951) Austrian Medal for Science and Art (1957) Gustav Klimt badge as an honorary member of the Vienna Secession Collections Kubin's Dance of Death and Other Drawings (1973) (art collection) () The Life and Art of Alfred Kubin (2017) (autobiography) () Gallery See also List of Austrian artists and architects List of Austrians Notes References Arnason, H. H., & Wheeler, D. (1986). History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. Assman, Peter Alfred Kubin 1877–1959. Exhibition catalogue Brussels (Ixelles) 1997 Alfred Kubin. Exhibition catalogue Neue Galerie New York 2008 Romana Schuler Alfred Kubin, Aus meinem Reich. Exhibition catalogue Leopold Museum Vienna 2003 Traumgestalten. 100 Meisterwerke aus dem Besitz der Graphischen Sammlung Albertina. Vienna 1990 External links www.alfred-kubin.com (in German) Stefan Üner: Alfred Kubin. Bewusst in Unbewusste, in: Parnass, Vienna 2019 Water Spirit: oil painting by Alfred Kubin Die Blaetter mit dem Tod: book of prints by Alfred Kubin at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York More than 200 paintings and drawings by Alfred Kubin 1877 births 1959 deaths 19th-century Austrian people 20th-century Austrian novelists 20th-century Austrian male writers Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni Austrian autobiographers Austrian etchers Austrian illustrators Austrian fantasy writers Austrian people of German Bohemian descent Austrian people of Czech descent Austrian speculative fiction artists Austrian male novelists People from Litoměřice