Edited by Prof. H.K Frenzel. Introduction (in German and English) by Dr. Max Osborn

AUCTION 41 | Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Lot 315

(STEINER-PRAG, HUGO).

Edited by Prof. H.K Frenzel. Introduction (in German and English) by Dr. Max Osborn

Frontispiece portrait of the Artist, followed by an etching and a lithograph each signed by Steiner-Prag in pencil below the image. More than 100 color and black-and-white plates reproducing drawings, book-lillustrations, commecial designs and custom book-bindings Original vellum-backed cream-colored linen boards, touch discolored. Sm. folio

Berlin: Phönix 1928

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

A RARE LIVRE-D’ARTIST. A LIMITED EDITION OF ONE HUNDRED NUMBERED COPIES. THIS COPY NUMBERED “3.” So enamored was the artist Hugo Steiner (1880-1945) of his native city that he hyphenated his surname, becoming Steiner-Prag. This Czech Jew achieved fame as a graphic artist and book illustrator and in 1907 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, from which he was forced to flee in 1939, arriving in New York a refugee. See EJ, Vol. III, col. 611