Франк /Фрэнк/ Рудольф Пауль (Frank Rudolph Paul, 1884-1963) - один из "Большой четвёрки" (Лио Мори | Leo Morey, Франк Пауль | Frank R. Paul, Ганс Вессоловски | Hans Waldemar Wessolowski, Говард Браун | Howard Vachel Brown) выдающихся американских иллюстраторов, работавших в жанре научной фантастики. Родился в Австро-Венгрии; эмигрировал в Соединённые Штаты в 1906 году; учился архитектуре и живописи в Вене, Париже и Нью-Йорке. В 1914 году издатель Хьюго Гернсбек (Hugo Gernsback; 1884-1967) нанял Пауля иллюстрировать научно-технический журнал "Илектрикэл икспериментер" (The Electrical Experimenter). Сотрудничество Хьюго Гернсбека и Франка Пауля продолжилось в популярных журналах "Эвридэй сайенс энд микэникс" (Everyday Science and Mechanics), "Эмейзинг сториз" (Amazing Stories), для которого художник создал 38 обложек и "Уандер сториз" (Wonder Stories) - 103 обложки. Исскуство мастера удивительно ментально - его присутствие отчётливо чувствуется и в современной американской фантастике. Обложки художника широко растиражированы в Интернете, поэтому привожу несколько внутренних иллюстраций, опубликованных в ежемесячнике Хьюго Гернсбека "Эмейзинг сториз" (Amazing Stories), а также в "Эир уандер сториз" (Air Wonder Stories) и "Сайенс уандер сториз" (Science Wonder Stories), объединённых позднее в журнал научной фантастики "Уандер сториз" (Wonder Stories).
Amazing Stories, November 1928. The Ananias Gland by W.Alexander
Air Wonder Stories, September 1929. "The Airplane of the Future"
Amazing Stories, June 1926. Dr. Hackensaw's Secret Some Minor Inventions by Clement Fezandie
Amazing Stories, June 1926. An Experiment in Gyro-Hats by Ellis Parker Butler
Amazing Stories, December 1926. The Man Higher Up by Edwin Balmer and William B.MacHarg
Amazing Stories, August 1927. The Ultra-Elixir of Youth by A.Hyatt Verrill
Amazing Stories, March 1928. Sub-Satellite by Charles Cloukey
Amazing Stories, October 1928. To the Moon by Proxy by J.Schlossel
Air Wonder Stories, October 1929. The Invisible Raiders by Ed.Earl Repp
Air Wonder Stories, January 1930. The Flying Legion by George Allan England
Science Wonder Stories, July 1929. The Reign of the Ray by Irvin Lester and Fletcher Pratt
Wonder Stories, May 1931. Utopia Island by Otfrid von Hanstein
Amazing Stories, November 1928. The Ananias Gland by W.Alexander
Wonder Stories Quarterly, 1932. Exiles of Mars by Frank K.Kelly
Wonder Stories, November 1931. Tetrahedra of Space by P.Schuyler Miller
Wonder Stories, October 1932. Master of the Asteroid by Clark Ashton Smith
Frank Rudolph Paul (1884-1963) was one of the "Big Four" outstanding American illustrators working in the genre of science fiction (Leo Morey, Frank R. Paul, Hans Waldemar Wessolowski, and Howard Vachel Brown). He was born in Austria-Hungary, emigrated to the United States in 1906, and studied architecture and painting in Vienna, Paris, and New York. In 1914, publisher Hugo Gernsback hired Paul to illustrate the scientific and technical magazine The Electrical Experimenter. Collaboration between Hugo Gernsback and Frank Paul continued in the popular magazines Everyday Science and Mechanics, Amazing Stories, for which the artist created 38 covers, and Wonder Stories, for which he created 103 covers. The artist's art is remarkably mental—his presence is clearly felt in contemporary American science fiction. The artist's covers are widely circulated online, so I'm including several interior illustrations published in Hugo Gernsback's monthly magazine Amazing Stories, as well as in Air Wonder Stories and Science Wonder Stories, which later merged into the science fiction magazine Wonder Stories.