Computer Animation Arts

I was unfamiliar with Hugo Steiner-Prag's illustrations for Der Golem , but they instantly evoke those other icons of horror-centric Expressionism - the ever-influential The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) and Murnau's Nosferatu (1922). Steiner-Prag also illustrated the works of Edgar Allan Poe , which you can view here . " Hugo Steiner-Prag was born Hugo Steiner in Prague (at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) 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. He took private art lessons and finally entered the Prager Kunstakademie (Prague Academy of the Arts) in 1897... One of Steiner-Prag's major projects during this time was the illustration of E.T.A. Hoffmann's Die Elixiere des Teufels . The sketches were successfully exhibited in the Buchgewerbemuseum in Leipzig. This cemented Steiner-Prag's reputation as an illustrator and b...