Alastair (artist)

Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von Voigt (20 October 1887 – 30 October 1969), best known by his nickname Alastair, was a German artist, composer, dancer, mime, poet, singer and translator.

[1] Hans Henning Baron von Voight was born of German nobility in Karlsruhe.

[2] Shortly after leaving school he studied philosophy at Marburg University where he met the writer Boris Pasternak.

His career as an artist was begun in 1914, when John Lane published Forty-Three Drawings by Alastair.

Alastair’s fame spread in 1920 with the publication of Wilde's The Sphinx, which contained ten full-page illustrations by him, ‘printed in black and turquoise’.