Frank R. Paul

Frank Rudolph Paul was an American illustrator of pulp magazines in the science fiction field.

Paul was born on April 18, 1884 in Radkersburg, Austria. His father was from Hungary and his mother from Czechoslovakia. He emigrated to the United States in 1906. He married Rudolpha Costa Rigelsen, a Belgian immigrant, in 1913, and they had four children, Robert S. Paul , Francis L. Paul , Joan C. Paul , and Patricia Ann Paul . He studied art in Vienna, Paris, and New York City. He went to work for the Jersey Journal performing graphic design. Publisher Hugo Gernsback hired him in 1914 to illustrate The Electrical Experimenter, a science magazine.

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