Frank C Papé (1878-1972) was an English artist associated with the Golden Age of Illustration. He contributed colour illustrations to many titles in his early career - at that time, his artwork carried many Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite influences.
The Frank C Papé Collection at Spirit of the Ages includes art images from some of Papé's seminal work. As a valuable reference resource, options are also provided for purchasing a range of gifts, including reproduction prints, posters and greeting cards.
Throughout the latter part of his career, Papé contributed to illustrated books almost exclusively with monotone images.
I of course had never heard of him before, but he clearly fits well into the tradition of Arthur Rackham and, indeed, the modern comic book artists. It seems he illustrated and illuminated virtually everything, from the Psalms to the Eddas.
The above piccie is one of my favourites. It's from an English edition of the German Protestant fantasy Kinderleben (or Das Märchen ohne Ende) by Friedrich Wilhelm Carové. I haven't read it, but it looks almost like a German equivalent of that great English Protestant fantasy The Water Babies. (Kingsley's strange mix of whimsy, proto-Darwinism, pederasty and anti-Catholic bigotry actually pre-dated Carové's work by only five years.)
The above piccie is one of my favourites. It's from an English edition of the German Protestant fantasy Kinderleben (or Das Märchen ohne Ende) by Friedrich Wilhelm Carové. I haven't read it, but it looks almost like a German equivalent of that great English Protestant fantasy The Water Babies. (Kingsley's strange mix of whimsy, proto-Darwinism, pederasty and anti-Catholic bigotry actually pre-dated Carové's work by only five years.)
Clearly it's also not be confused with that other German fantasy master-work Die unendliche Geschichte.
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