Question: A Wild Ride Through the Night is a novel by the German Author/ Cartoonist Walter Moers, the story is based on 12 engravings by which French artist, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor who worked primarily with wood engraving?

Context articles: A Wild Ride Through the Night
Alexander Wilson Drake
The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
Blair Hughes-Stanton
David Claypoole Johnston
Steel engraving
Wood engraving
Paul Landacre
Gustave Doré
Prelude to a Million Years

A Wild Ride Through the Night is a novel by the German Author/ Cartoonist Walter Moers.
 It was first published in German in 2001 and is the story of Gustave Doré, a young boy who goes on a death defying adventure to defy Death.
 The story is based on 12 engravings by Gustave Doré.
Alexander Wilson Drake (1843–1916) was an American artist, collector and critic, born near Westfield, New Jersey.
 He studied wood engraving under John W. Orr of New York city, as well as oil and water-color painting.
 He was in the wood engraving business on his own account in New York city from 1865 to 1870.
 From 1870 to 1881 he was director of the art department of "Scribner's Magazine", and thereafter he held a similar position on the "Century" and "St. Nicholas".
 In this capacity he did much to aid the development of the new school of wood engraving in America.
 He organized the Bartholdi loan association which raised the money to build the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor.
 He was also identified with other important art movements in the United States.
 He was one of the nine men who founded the Grolier Club in New York City, and was elected a member of the Century Association, the Players Club, the Architectural league, the Municipal art league of New York, and the Caxton club of Chicago, Ill.
The 13⁄ Lives of Captain Bluebear is a 1999 fantasy novel by German writer and cartoonist Walter Moers which details the numerous lives of a human-sized bear with blue fur.
 The captain's name is originally a pun in German, based upon the fact that the German words for "bears" ("Bären") and "berries" (Beeren) sound very much alike, whereas "Blaubeere" (lit.
 "blueberry") is actually the German word for bilberry (a number of other German cartoonists have made similar puns relating to bear names in their stories, including Rötger Feldmann aka Brösel), that a typical sailorish sailor is called an (old) "seabear", and that sailors are prejudiced to be quite often "blue", i.e. drunk.
 The novel was originally written in German, an English translation was published in the United Kingdom in 2000 and in the United States in 2005, an Italian translation in 2000, a Chinese translation in 2002, and a French translation in 2005.
 The novel attained considerable popularity in Germany and the United Kingdom while experiencing relative obscurity in the United States.
Blair Rowlands Hughes-Stanton (22 February 1902 – 6 June 1981) was a major figure in the English wood engraving revival in the twentieth century.
 He was the son of the artist Sir Herbert Hughes-Stanton.
 He exhibited with the Society of Wood Engravers, but was more in sympathy with the philosophy of the English Wood Engraving Society, of which he was a founding member in 1925.
 He co-directed the Gregynog Press from 1930 to 1933 with his wife, Gertrude Hermes.
David Claypoole Johnston (25 March 1799 – 8 November 1865) was a 19th-century American cartoonist, printmaker, painter, and actor from Boston, Massachusetts.
 He was the first natively trained American to master all the various graphic arts processes of lithography, etching, metal plate engraving, and wood engraving.
Steel engraving is a technique for printing illustrations based on steel instead of copper.
 It has been rarely used in artistic printmaking, although it was much used for reproductions in the 19th century.
 Steel engraving was introduced in 1792 by Jacob Perkins (1766–1849), an American inventor, for banknote printing.
 When Perkins moved to London in 1818, the technique was adapted in 1820 by Charles Warren and especially by Charles Heath (1785–1848) for Thomas Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope", which contained the first published plates engraved on steel.
 The new technique only partially replaced the other commercial techniques of that time such as woodcut, wood engraving, copper engraving and later lithography.
 All the illustrations in the "Encyclopædia Britannica" of 1911 are steel engravings.
Wood engraving is a printmaking and letterpress printing technique, in which an artist works an image or "matrix" of images into a block of wood.
 Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively low pressure.
 By contrast, ordinary engraving, like etching, uses a metal plate for the matrix, and is printed by the intaglio method, where the ink fills the "valleys", the removed areas.
 As a result, wood engravings deteriorate less quickly than copper-plate engravings, and have a distinctive white-on-black character.
Paul Hambleton Landacre (July 9, 1893, Columbus, Ohio - June 3, 1963, Los Angeles, California) participated in the Southern California artistic Renaissance between the world wars and is regarded as one of the outstanding printmakers of the modern era.
 His stylistic innovations and technical virtuosity gained wood engraving a foothold as an art form in twentieth-century America.
 Landacre's linocuts and wood engravings of landscapes, still lifes, nudes, and abstractions are celebrated for their consummate design and mastery of material.
 He used the finest inks and Japanese papers and, with few exceptions, printed his wood engravings on a nineteenth-century Washington Hand Press, which is now in the collection of the International Printing Museum in Carson, California.
Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré ( ; ] ; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor who worked primarily with wood engraving.
Prelude to a Million Years: A Book of Wood Engravings is a 1933 wordless novel consisting of thirty wood engravings by American artist Lynd Ward (1905–1985).
 It was the fourth of Ward's six wordless novels, a genre Ward discovered while studying wood engraving in Europe, and delved into under the influence of the works of Frans Masereel and Otto Nückel.
 The symbol-rich story tells of a sculptor who, in his quest for ideal beauty, neglects the reality of the struggles of his neighbors in the depths of the Great Depression.
 The engravings are done in a softer Art Deco style in contrast to the German Expressionism-influenced artwork of Ward's earlier works.