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    Artist

  • Steiner-Prag, Hugo, 1880-1945

    • Title

  • Illustration to The Death of the Lion: Rudolph II

  • Physical Description

    1 print : etching ; 10.6" x 5.9" ; 26.8 x 15 cm

  • Date

    1923

  • Notes

    Emperor Rudolph II. is shown with soldiers bearing lances in the background. Signed lower right.

  • Summary

    This is one of 12 illustrations of Auguste Hauschner’s historical novel ‘Der Tod des Löwen’ (Death of the Lion); see accession numbers 78.791, 78.792, 78.793; 78.796, 78.797, 78.798, 78.799, 78.800, 78.801, 78.802, 78.803, 78.809.

  • Depicted

    Rudolf, II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1552-1612

  • Subject

    Kings, queens, rulers, etc

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Illustrated books; Etchings; Prints

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Biographical/Historical Information

Auguste Hauschner (1850-1924) was a German-language writer who worked in Prague. The novel about the astronomer Tycho Brahe and a wonder-working rabbi is set in 16th century Prague at the time of Emperor Rudolph II.

The Habsburg Monarch and Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. (1552-1612) held court in Prague. He was a great patron of the arts and highly interested in alchemy and all occult sciences.

Hugo Steiner-Prag was born in Prague on December 12, 1880. Upon leaving secondary school, Hugo Steiner joined “Jung-Prag”, a group of young artists who tended strongly toward mysticism and the occult. Steiner entered the Prager Kunstakademie (Prague Academy of the Arts) in 1897, and in 1900, he moved to Munich to enroll at the Königliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Royal Academy of Fine Arts). Around that time, he added the name of his native city “Prag” to his last name in order to distinguish himself from other artists bearing the same name. In 1916, Steiner-Prag created twenty-five lithographs for Gustav Meyrink's novel, "Der Golem", which would become his masterpiece. In 1933, after the Nazis had terminated his position as professor in Germany, he returned to Prague and established a private school for book arts and graphic design, called the Officina Pragensis. In 1938, this institute became the model for a similar school in Stockholm, where he taught book design, advertising, and stage design. Steiner-Prag left Stockholm in 1941 and became a professor at the Division of Graphic Arts at New York University. In 1943, he mounted a successful exhibition at the New York Public Library. Hugo Steiner-Prag died in New York City on September 10, 1945.

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Citation

Steiner-Prag, Hugo: Illustration to The Death of the Lion: Rudolph II, Leo Baeck Institute, 78.803.