| Ref#: |
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| Artist: |
Frank R. Paul, 1884 - 1963 |
| Place of Birth: |
Vienna, , Austria |
| Biography: |
Frank Rudolph Paul was an illustrator of US pulp magazines in the science fiction field. A discovery of Hugo Gernsback (himself an immigrant from Luxembourg), Frank R. Paul was very influential in defining what both cover art and interior illustrations in the nascent science fiction pulps of the 1920s looked like.
In many ways, Frank R. Paul's achievements and influence on the field through the ages cannot be overestimated. His work appeared on the cover of the first issue (April 1926) of Amazing Stories magazine, the first magazine dedicated to science fiction. He would paint all the covers for over three years. These visions of robots, spaceships, and aliens were presented to an America wherein most people did not even own a telephone. Indeed, they were the first science fiction images seen by Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Forrest J. Ackerman and others who would go on to great prominence in the field. His most famous Amazing Stories cover is probably that from August 1927, illustrating a reprint of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. |
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