HAUSCHNER, AUGUSTE. Der Tod des Löwen [“Death of the Lions”: novella]. With etchings by Steiner-Prag

A Rare and Lavish Production. Hauschner tells a fanciful tale set in sixteenth-century Rudolfine Prague of astronomer Tycho Brahe and a wonder-working rabbi who is a “Baal Shem.” So enamored was the artist Hugo Steiner (1880-1945) of his native city that he hyphenated his surname, becoming Steiner-Prag. The Czech Jew achieved fame as a graphic artist and book illustrator. In 1907 he was appointed professor at the State Academy of Leipzig, only to be dismissed from his position by the Nazis in 1933. Thereafter he founded an art school in his beloved Prague, which he was forced to flee in 1939, arriving in New York a refugee. See EJ, Vol. III, col. 611