Hugo Steiner-Prag’s Ghostly Ballads

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Mountain Voices.

In which the illustrator of Gustav Meyrink’s The Golem illustrates six ballads or lieder by Heinrich Heine. These etchings don’t bear comparison to Steiner-Prag’s peerless Golem illustrations, or those for his illustrated Poe, but they’re good to see even if the meaning remains obscure.

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Man Behind a Window.

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The Dream.

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