Frank R. Paul

Frank Rudolph Paul ( born April 18, 1884 in Vienna, † June 29, 1963 in Teaneck, New Jersey ) was an Austro- American illustrator of science fiction stories.

Paul was a trained architect and became famous for his illustrations for the first American science fiction magazines. For three years, from 1926 to 1929, came every cover of the magazine Amazing Stories, the (actually Gernsbach ) was issued by the Luxembourg -born Hugo Gernsback, by Paul. His dramatic level of detail rendering style with robots, spaceships and impressive future cities made ​​school. Frank R. Paul is considered the first illustrator who designed the image of a space station.