HAUSCHNER, AUGUSTE. Der Tod des Löwen

(Steiner-Prag, Hugo).

K. André

Leipzig-Prague

1922

ONE OF 145 NUMBERED COPIES. Ten etched plates by by Steiner-Prag. A Mint Copy. Partially unopened

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 - a “Baal Shem.” So enamored of his native city was the artist Hugo Steiner, he hyphenated his surname, becoming Steiner-Prag. This soulful Czech Jew achieved fame as a graphic artist and book illustrator. In 1907 he was appointed Professor of Art at the State Academy of Leipzig, only to be dismissed from his long-held 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. He died in 1945. See EJ, Vol. III, col. 611