These fanciful illustrations looks far younger than their original appearance in 1925. Found in an literary edition of Goethe’s ‘Faust,’ each of the prophetically psychedelic pages where drawn by the legendary Harry Clarke.
Born the son of an Irish craftsman, Clarke spent his formative years surrounded by art and in his late teens studied stained glass at the Dublin Art School. Following his graduation, he traveled to London and started his career as a book illustrator and stained glass artist, first making his name with work on an edition of Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘Tales of Mystery and Imagination.’ His work was heavily influenced by the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements, as easily seen in these illustrations from ‘Faust’ created during the height of his mastery.
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