Gvido Birolla

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Name Gvido Birolla		Known for Painting, Illustration

Born June 12, 1881 ( 1881-06-12 ) Trieste, Italy Notable work Painting, illustration and caricature Awards Levstik Award1951 for Trije bratje in trije razbojniki Died May 29, 1963, Ljubljana, Slovenia Education Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Gvido Birolla (12 June 1881 – 29 May 1963) was a Slovene painter, illustrator and caricaturist, known for his political caricatures published in satirical newspapers of the time and his book illustrations.

Birolla was born in Trieste in 1881. His father was an Italian from Pazin and his mother a Slovene from Skofja Loka. After his father's death in 1884, his mother moved back to Skofja Loka where Gvido grew up. He studied in Ljubljana and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He died in Ljubljana in 1963.

Birolla was a very popular book illustrator and won the Levstik Award for his illustrations of Karel Sirok's book Trije bratje in trije razbojniki (Three Brothers and Three Robbers).

Selected illustrated works

Leta moje mladosti (The Years of My Youth), written by Fran Saleski Finzgar, 1967 (illustrated together with Ive Subic

Jurij Kozjak, slovenski janicar (Jurij Kozjak, the Slovene Janissary), written by Josip Jurcic, 1963

Repostev, gospodar krkonosev, written by Johann Karl August Musaus, 1957

Skorenjcek Matevzek (Matevzek the Little Boot), written by Sasa Vuga, 1955

Brezen (The Abyss), written by Andrej Savli, 1955

Trije bratje in trije razbojniki (Three Brothers and Three Robbers), written by Karel Sirok, 1951

Triglav: planinska idila (Triglav: A Mountain Idyll), written by Fran Saleski Finzgar, 1950

Oljki (To the Olive Tree), written by Simon Gregorcic, 1944

Mlada pota (Paths of Youth), written by Oton Zupancic, 1921

References

Gvido Birolla Wikipedia

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