Hugo Steiner-Prag graphic artist and book illustrator was born in Prague and studied at the Prague Kunstakademie in 1897 specialising in colour lithography. In 1900 to Munich to study at the Munchner Kunstakademie where he was greatly influenced by Jugendstil, becoming a teacher there for graphic illustration 1903/05. From 1907 until 1933 was Professor and Leader in the Master Class for Graphische Kunste und Buchgewerbe in Leipzig. 1933/37 founded the School “Officina Pragensis” and opened a collection of book art in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Prague. Emigrated to Stockholm in 1938 and in 1941, became Lecturer in the Graphic Arts Division of the New York University. He died in New York in 1945.