Hugo Steiner-Prague

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Hugo Steiner-Prague around 1910
Hugo Steiner-Prag 1905 (painting by Albert Weisgerber )
Portrait of the artist Hugo Steiner-Prag by Hugo Erfurth

Hugo Steiner-Prag (born December 12, 1880 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † September 10, 1945 in New York ) was a Bohemian- German illustrator , set designer and teacher .

life and work

The son of a bookseller attended the Prague Art Academy from 1898 and the Munich Art Academy from 1901 to 1903 , where he was a student of Peter Halm and Franz von Stuck . In 1905 he converted from Judaism to Catholicism and took German citizenship in 1907 . He taught at the teaching and experimental studio for fine and applied arts in Munich until 1905 and married his student Paula Bergmann from Seedorf in Ostholstein, who had attended the Debschitz School since 1903. From 1905 to 1907 he worked at the Barmer Kunstgewerbeschule , from where he was appointed to the Royal Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig . From 1910 he held a chair there. Among other things, Erich Ohser (e. O. Plauen) was one of his students. During this time he was also the artistic director of Propylaen Verlag in Berlin . Hugo Steiner-Prag became famous for his illustrations for Lenau's poems, Andersen's fairy tales and Hoffmann's The Elixirs of the Devil . In 1915 he illustrated Gustav Meyrink's novel The Golem . He was president of the international book exhibitions in Leipzig in 1919 and 1927 and organized the book departments of the German exhibitions in Barcelona, ​​Lyon, Paris, Pittsburgh and New York.

After the Nazis came to power in 1933, he lost his professorship and returned to Prague. There, with the support of the Czechoslovak government, he founded the state-run Officina Pragensis , a training center for young talents, designed stage sets and traveled to Bohemia and the Carpathian Mountains . After the German invasion , he emigrated to Sweden in 1939 and finally to the USA in 1941 . In 1942 he settled in New York. He taught at the university, became a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts , illustrated books and designed signets.

Memberships

literature

  • Gebauer, Horst: Hugo Steiner-Prag and his ex-libris, in: DEG-Jahrbuch. Exlibriskunst und Graphik, 2005, pp. 15–24.
  • Schlegel, Irene: Hugo Steiner-Prague. His life for the beautiful book, Memmingen: Ed. Curt Visel, 1995.
  • Fritz Homeyer: German Jews as Bibiophiles and Antiquaries , 2nd Edition, Tübingen: Mohr 1966, pp. 36–38.
  • Julius Rodenberg (ed.): Hugo Steiner-Prag on his fiftieth birthday, Leipzig: Haag-Drugulin, 1930.
  • Hermann Karl Frenzel (Ed.): Hugo Steiner-Prag, Berlin: Phönix, 1928.
  • Weigel, Petra: Hugo Steiner-Prague. Binding and signet design for Justus Perthes Verlag 1924–1925, in: Einband-Forschung , Volume 30 (2012), pp. 56–66.
  • H. Ankwitz: Steiner-Prag, Hugo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 560 .

Web links

Commons : Hugo Steiner-Prag  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Steiner-Prag, Hugo ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 4, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Steiner-Prague, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1945
Place of death New York City