{"id":14440,"date":"2013-10-24T05:31:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T04:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14440"},"modified":"2013-10-24T05:31:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T04:31:11","slug":"hugo-steiner-prags-illustrated-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/24\/hugo-steiner-prags-illustrated-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Steiner-Prag&#8217;s illustrated Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prag05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/prag05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Halloween approaches. Edgar Allan Poe illustrators are legion\u2014some of the better ones appeared here a couple of years ago (see the links below)\u2014but I&#8217;d not seen these lithographs by Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880\u20131945) before. Steiner-Prag was an ideal illustrator for Gustav Meyrink&#8217;s <em>The Golem<\/em> so it&#8217;s a pleasure to see him addressing Poe&#8217;s poems. All the prints are from a collection at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/culturalinstitute\/entity\/%2Fm%2F075f2tg\" target=\"_blank\">Google Art Project<\/a> which includes one of the <em>Golem<\/em> illustrations plus a set for <em>The Tales of Hoffmann<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prag01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/prag01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Spirits of the Dead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prag02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/prag02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Sleeper.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prag03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/prag03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>To Zante.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prag04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/prag04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Raven.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prag06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/prag06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The City in the Sea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prag07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/prag07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Tamerlane.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prag08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/prag08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Dreamland.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prag09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/prag09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Lake.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prag10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/prag10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Coliseum.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prag11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/prag11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ulalume.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prag12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/prag12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Fairy-land.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/04\/13\/burt-shonbergs-poe-paintings\/\">Burt Shonberg&#8217;s Poe paintings<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/29\/illustrating-poe-5-among-the-others\/\">Illustrating Poe #5: Among the others<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/28\/illustrating-poe-4-wilfried-satty\/\">Illustrating Poe #4: Wilfried S?\u00a7tty<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/27\/illustrating-poe-3-harry-clarke\/\">Illustrating Poe #3: Harry Clarke<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/26\/illustrating-poe-2-william-heath-robinson\/\">Illustrating Poe #2: William Heath Robinson<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/25\/illustrating-poe-1-aubrey-beardsley\/\">Illustrating Poe #1: Aubrey Beardsley<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/19\/poe-at-200\/\">Poe at 200<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/29\/the-tell-tale-heart-from-upa\/\">The Tell-Tale Heart from UPA<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/02\/15\/william-heath-robinsons-illustrated-poe\/\">William Heath Robinson&#8217;s illustrated Poe<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/26\/hugo-steiner-prags-golem\/\">Hugo Steiner-Prag\u2019s Golem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween approaches. Edgar Allan Poe illustrators are legion\u2014some of the better ones appeared here a couple of years ago (see the links below)\u2014but I&#8217;d not seen these lithographs by Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880\u20131945) before. Steiner-Prag was an ideal illustrator for Gustav Meyrink&#8217;s The Golem so it&#8217;s a pleasure to see him addressing Poe&#8217;s poems. All the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/24\/hugo-steiner-prags-illustrated-poe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hugo Steiner-Prag&#8217;s illustrated Poe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,48],"tags":[93,402,4854,358,5312],"class_list":["post-14440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-golem","tag-google-art-project","tag-gustav-meyrink","tag-hugo-steiner-prag"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3KU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}