Josef Lada
Josef Lada (born 17 December 1887 in Hrusice, Bohemia – 14 December 1957 in Prague, buried at Olšany Cemetery) was a Czech painter and writer. He is best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War One novel The Good Soldier Švejk, having won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1963.
The asteroid 17625 Joseflada has been named after him.[1]
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Life
Born in the small village of Hrusice in a cobbler's family, he went to Prague at the age of 14 to become an apprentice binder. Entirely self-taught, he created his own style as a caricaturist for newspapers, and later as an illustrator. He produced landscapes, created frescoes and designed costumes for plays and films. Over the years he created a series of paintings and drawings depicting traditional Czech occupations, and wrote and illustrated the adventures of Mikeš, a little black cat who could talk.
Lada produced nearly 600 cartoons of the Švejk characters, depicting Austria-Hungary officers and civil servants as incompetent, abusive and often drunk.[2] All subsequent editions of Švejk used Lada's illustrations, except for the 2008/2009 Czech edition illustrated by Petr Urban.
Gallery
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Birthplace of Josef Lada
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Lada's villa in Hrusice today houses his museum
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One of the cartoons from The Good Soldier Švejk
References
External links
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- Official Page (in Czech, from 9/2014 in English)
- Satirist, illustrator and landscape painter Josef Lada subject of major retrospective – Czech Radio
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- 1887 births
- 1957 deaths
- People from Prague-East District
- People from the Kingdom of Bohemia
- Czech painters
- Czech illustrators
- Czech children's writers
- Czech scenic designers
- Writers who illustrated their own writing
- The Good Soldier Svejk
- 20th-century Czech painters