Dream Within A Dream

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Font for Edgar Allan Poe.
Dream Within a Dream was the title of exhibition of Czech art inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe curated by Otto M Urban and Veronika Hulíková.
Three dozens of artists exhibited their works in the Czech National Gallery in 2020.
The catalogue was printed with the use of the present typeface.
Artists took significant interest in Poe's literary oeuvre only after the writer's untimely death.
This was mainly thanks to the poet Charles Baudelaire who translated Poe's works to French.
As early as in the second half of the 19th century, prominent artists such as Edouard Manet, Odilon Redon, James Ensor and Gustave Doré created remarkable artworks inspired by Poe.
Although the first Czech translations of Poe's woks date to the 1850s, artworks inspired by them only appeared several decades later, at the turn on the 20th century.
Poe's poems and short stories inspired František Kupka and soon after him, Josef Váchal, Jan Konůpek and František Kobliha.
Alfred Kubin, a German artist born in Bohemia, made illustrations for the German translation of Poe's collected stories.
Later on, Alén Diviš and František Tichý created further Poe-inspired artworks.
Poe was a source of inspiration for Jan Švankmajer and more recently, František Štorm and Jaroslav Róna.