Hauschner, Auguste. Der Tod des Löwen.

(STEINER-PRAG, HUGO).

K. André

Leipzig-Prague

1922

LIMITED EDITION (this copy unnumbered). Ten etched plates by Steiner-Prag. each signed by the artist below the plate.

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. 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, but was forced to flee in 1939. He died in New York in 1945. See EJ, Vol. III col. 611.