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    Artist

  • Steiner-Prag, Hugo, 1880-1945

    • Title

  • Die Ahnfrau : Tragedy by Franz Grillparzer / Illustrated by Hugo Steiner-Prag

    • Other Title(s)

  • The Ancestress

  • Physical Description

    7 lithographs ; 9" x 7" ; 22 x 18 centimeters

  • Date

    1919

  • Notes

    Set of seven illustrations, accession numbers 78.821 - 78.826 and 78.810.11.

  • Summary

    Die Ahnfrau (The Ancestress) by the Austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer, first performed in 1817, was a tragedy written in the trochaic Spanish verse form, juxtaposing a quiet existence and a life of action, where the characters are ultimately responsible for their own destruction.

    A new, printed edition, published in Leipzig in 1919 was illustrated by Hugo Steiner-Prag.

  • Depicted

    Grillparzer, Franz, 1791-1872

  • Subject

    Death in art; Drama, Tragedy; Executions and executioners in art; Ghosts in art; Illustration of books

  • Medium

    Lithographs; Prints; Illustrated books

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

The son of a bookseller, Hugo Steiner-Prag attended the Academy of Arts in Prague from 1898 and continued his education at the Munich Art Academy from 1901-1903, where he was a student of Peter Halm and Franz von Stuck. In 1905, he converted from Judaism to Catholicism and became a German citizen in 1907, and during this time he worked at the Barmer Kunstgewerbeschule, where he was appointed to the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts and Printing Arts in Leipzig, and where he also held a chair since 1910. He was also artistic director of the Propylaea publishing house in Berlin. Steiner-Prag was known for his illustrations of Lenau poems, Andersen's fairy tales, and Hoffmann's "The Devil's Elixirs". In 1915, he illustrated Gustav Meyrink's novel "Der Golem". He was president of the International Book Exhibition in Leipzig in 1919 and 1927 and organized the book departments of German exhibitions in Barcelona, Lyon, Paris, Pittsburgh, and New York. He emigrated to Sweden in 1939 and then to the United States in 1941.

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Steiner-Prag, Hugo: Die Ahnfrau : Tragedy by Franz Grillparzer / Illustrated by Hugo Steiner-Prag, Leo Baeck Institute, 78.805.