Carlos Schwabe, Swiss Symbolist painter and printmaker, was born in Altona, Holstein and moved to Geneva, Switzerland at an early age, where he received Swiss nationality. Studied art in Geneva and relocated to Paris where he worked as a wallpaper designer. He became acquainted with the Symbolist painters and writers and joined the Salon de la Rose-Croix in 1892. Exhibited at the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Salon d’Automne and won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris. He illustrated a number of books and designed posters and contributed prints to various art journals of the period.