Frank R. Paul

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Cover of the February 1928 issue of Amazing Stories, drawn by Paul

Frank Rudolph Paul (born April 18, 1884 in Vienna , † June 29, 1963 in Teaneck , New Jersey ) was an Austro-American illustrator of science fiction stories.

Paul was a trained architect and became famous for his illustrations for the first American science fiction magazines. For three years, from 1926 to 1929, every cover of the Amazing Stories magazine , published by the Luxembourg- born Hugo Gernsback (actually Gernsbacher), came from Paul. His dramatic and detailed representation style with robots , spaceships and impressive cities of the future caught on. Frank R. Paul is considered to be the first illustrator who designed the picture of a space station .

In 2009 he was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

literature

  • Winfried Nerdinger u. a. (Ed.): Architecture as it is in the book. Innsbruck (Pustet) 2006, p. 412f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Science fiction awards database - Frank R. Paul . Retrieved November 21, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Paul, Frank R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paul, Frank Rudolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-American illustrator of science fiction stories
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1963
Place of death Teaneck , New Jersey, USA