Oskar Veilandt

Oskar Veilandt was a painter living and working in Vienna. He was interested in alchemy and mysticism. He died in Paris some five years before the start of The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters. Veilandt left behind a considerable body of work on religious themes, all of them more than a little controversial due to content and theme. His masterwork, an Annunciation, was cut into 13 smaller pieces, each one with an alchemical formula on the back.