#Hugo Steiner-Prag

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Shakespeare Weekend

Shakespeare’s comedy Measure for Measure, is volume twenty-two of the thirty-seven volume The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, published by the Limited Editions Club (LEC) from 1939-1940. The play was likely first acted in 1604. It was first printed in the folio of 1623. 

Measure for Measure was illustrated by German Bohemian illustrator and stage designer Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880-1945). By his fifties Steiner-Prag had designed three hundred and sixty books and illustrated fifty-six books. He was for a time president of the Association of German Book Trade Artists. On illustrating this volume of he says:

I have always been deeply attracted by Measure for Measure with its bright and dark happenings, its glowing passions, its burlesque choirs, and with the frequently more than dubious personages that people this work with its threatening, fateful events that are the cause of such genuine pain and so many tears. It is therefore easy to understand my desire to illustrate it with pictures. 

His vibrant and imaginative illustrations were made in lithography and were printed by Mourlot Freres in Paris. 

The volumes in the set were printed in an edition of 1950 copies at the Press of A. Colish, and each was illustrated by a different artist, but the unifying factor is that all volumes were designed by famed book and type designer Bruce Rogers and edited by the British theatre professional and Shakespeare specialist Herbert Farjeon. Our copy is number 1113, the number for long-standing LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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-Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Hugo Steiner-Prag, illustration for The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, 1943

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1916

those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

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' The Ancestress - Ghost in Daylight' by Hugo Steiner-Prag, 1919

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Ghetto, Praga, 1926 by Hugo Steiner-Prag (Czech 1880-1945)

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Aziraphale discovers a horrible murder committed in 1815, provoked by a demon that resembles Crowley, and doubts if he knows his friend for real. Crowley, deeply hurt by this assumption, but understanding Heaven's influence is still over him, takes a step back and goes away, hoping some time apart will help both of them heal.

Words: 19,888

Status: Complete

Rating: Explicit

This is a locked fic

Art Credit: City By The Sea by Hugo Steiner Prag, 1922

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Bruised Hysteria.

Bruised Hysteria is a pay-to-use, 6 page google doc template with a dark/horror aesthetic... Of sorts.

Being made almost completely with tabs and images (with a singular drawing that doesn't really matter at all), this template is mobile-friendly and easy enough to edit. It has space for a wide backstory, up to 10 connections, and a free page which can be used for headcanons, introductory scene, or whatever you want, really.

As per usual, once you buy it and as long as you don't remove the credits, you can do as you will with the sheet, it's not like I'll be there to stop you.

Lyrics used belong to "Aoguroi Hysteria" by Sukekiyo. The translation is from here.

Art by Hugo Steiner-Prag.

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Hugo Steiner-Prag

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Agnes Meyerhof (1856-1942) pintora y escultora alemana.

Nació en Hildesheim. Hija del empresario judío Magnus Meyerhof y su esposa Carolina, de soltera Schwabe, con cuatro hermanos. Allí, como su hermana Leonie, asistió a la escuela secundaria para niñas, donde se graduó en 1871.

Y al igual que su hermana Leonie, recibió lecciones de dibujo del escultor Friedrich Küsthardt en Hildesheim. Sus profesores también incluyeron a Julius Maria Jakob Welsch y Hugo Steiner-Prag.

Los niños disfrutaron de un gran apoyo artístico durante su infancia por parte de su madre Caroline Schwabe. La hermana de Agnes, Leonie Meyerhof (1858-1933) fue una conocida escritora, dramaturga y crítica literaria.

Su sobrino Otto Meyerhof (Hildesheim 1884-1952 Filadelfia - EE.UU.) recibió el Premio Nobel de Medicina en 1922, huyó de los nazis a través de Francia y emigró a los EE.UU

Trabajó durante décadas como artista visual en Frankfurt am Main y pintó, entre otras cosas, motivos del zoológico y del jardín de palmeras.

Además de pinturas, tres de las cuales se encuentran en el Museo Städel de Frankfurt, realizó numerosos ex libris.

Vivió y trabajó principalmente en Frankfurt am Main y se hizo conocida por sus representaciones de animales e ilustraciones zoológicas.

Sufrió la misma suerte que muchas personas mayores de origen judío que fueron deportadas al gueto de Theresienstadt después de haber sido obligadas a firmar un “ contrato de compra de vivienda ” para la supuesta “zona de asentamiento judío” y que normalmente sólo tenían unos días para vivir en las miserables condiciones prevaleciente allí.

Con 86 años salió de Frankfurt el 19 de agosto de 1942 con el Transporte XII/1. Tres días después, su muerte está documentada en las listas del del campo.

Le ponemos cara con su Autorretrato.

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Hugo Steiner-Prag - The Path to Horror

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Hugo Steiner-Prag had such beautiful artwork/illustrations. The shading, characters, use of appropriate lighting, etc. etc. was (and still is) immaculate.

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Ghost in Daylight, The Ancestress, 1919

by Hugo Steiner-Prag

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Hugo Steiner-Prag’s illustrations for Gustav Meyrink's 'Der Golem', 1916

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Hugo Steiner-Prag - Series of lithographs, illustrations for Gustav Meyrink’s Der Golem, 1916. Der Golem, At the master's grave, In the Ghetto, Student Charousek, Schemajah Hillel, Aron Wassertürm, Cry for Help, Night Ghost, Rosina, The End of the Ghetto.