Adolf Born

This article deals with the caricaturist and graphic artist Adolf Born, on the architect see Adolph Born .

Adolf Born (2010)

Adolf Born (born June 12, 1930 in České Velenice ; † May 22, 2016 in Prague ) was a Czech caricaturist and graphic artist . He has illustrated around 230 books and has contributed to 22 cartoons and 50 film and series productions.

Life

Born was born in the divided border town of České Velenice , whose Austrian part is Gmünd . His parents belonged to the German-speaking population of Czechoslovakia . In 1935 the family moved to Prague . From 1949 to 1950 he studied art education with Cyril Bouda at the Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. At the same time, he attended the Prague School of Applied Arts until 1952 , where the caricaturist Antonín Pelc inspired him for this medium. From 1953 he studied for two years at the Academy of Fine Arts and Painting.

After graduating, he devoted himself to the illustration of books and drew caricatures for the daily press. In 1961 he was represented at the second Paris Biennale . In 1968, after the brief period of the Prague Spring, in protest against the invasion of the Warsaw Pact, he had a Franz Joseph beard , which he wore until his death. In 1973 his public work was banned by local censors .

He then worked as an animator, book illustrator and graphic artist. His numerous color lithographs linked the demands of the visual arts with those of humorous entertainment. It is the phantasmagorias of an imaginary past, the latest offshoots of which extend to shortly before the time of his birth, that bring Adolf Born close to fantastic realism . Funny mythical creatures and ghost figures populate his often unobtrusive erotic pictures.

He has received awards for animation , cartoon , graphics and book illustrations in Italy , France , Spain , Finland , Belgium , the Federal Republic of Germany , the GDR , Turkey , Iran , Canada and Australia . In Germany he became known through his regular participation in the Oberhausen Short Film Festival and exhibitions in Berlin , Stuttgart , Baden-Baden , Munich , Hanover and Constance .

Since the Velvet Revolution of 1989 he received orders for stamp designs from the Czech Post. In addition, Adolf Born designed costumes and sets for the Czech National Theater , such as B. for Antonín Dvořák's opera Die Teufelskäthe in the 2009/2010 season. Adolf Born lived and worked in Prague.

Publications (selection)

As an author

• Picture book of the art of seduction. With a few recommendations from Lothar Kusche for budding lovers . 2nd edition Eulenspiegel, Berlin 1979 ( DNB 800358813 ).
• Picture book of travel art. With some recommendations for incoming and outgoing travelers from Lothar Kusche . Eulenspiegel , Berlin 1982 ( DNB 830751807 ).
• Lothar Kusche (Ed.): Adolf Borns Traumreisen. Documents of a tourist pleasure . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1983, ISBN 3-8067-3005-9 .
• Adolf Born. Autobornography Slovart, Prague 2010, ISBN 978-80-7391-363-2 .

As an illustrator

• Hana Neborová : The Golem . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2006. ISBN 978-3-8067-5126-0 .
• Rudyard Kipling : The jungle book cbj, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-13296-8 .
• Brothers Grimm : fairy tales . cbj, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-570-12678-1 .
• Jean de La Fontaine : Fables . Bertelsmann, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-570-12642-0 .

Filmography

1963 Až já budu velký 1963 Chlapíci 1964 Malá papírová revue 1964 Nejde jen o krasný úsměv 1964 Od A do Z 1964 O Prahu krásnější 1964 Pro koho? Pro sebe! 1965 Dvojník 1965 Neštovice 1965 Výročí VHO 1966 Úvahy kolem bydlení 1966 The Hobbit 1967 Poklad pana Arna 1967 Rohatá princezna 1968 Air India (film) 1968 Boj stále trvá 1968 Příliš mnoho něhy 1969 Šest černých dívek aneb Proč zmizel Zajíc? (Six Black Girls) painter and draftsman 1970 Jak se moudrý Aristoteles stal ještě moudřejším 1970 Nůžky 1972 Co kdyby ...? (What if ...) Director, screenplay 1973 Ze života ptáků (A bird's life) director

1974 Jak utopit doktora Mráčka 1974 Nesmysl (Nonsense) director 1975 Hugo a Bobo (Hugo and Bobo) director, screenplay 1975 O třech písmenkách 1976 O utrženém sluchátku director 1976 directed by Cirkulace 1977 Ze života dětí director 1977 Školní výlet director 1977 Člověk neandrtálský director 1978 Zoologická zahrada director 1978 Kropáček má angínu screenplay 1979 Přírodní zákony director 1979 Piráti director 1981 Mindrák (Inferiority Complex) director, production design 1982 Dobrodružství Robinsona Crusoe, námořníka z Yorku Art Director 1985 Mach a Šebestová k tabuli! Director, screenplay 1985 O Matyldě s náhradní hlavou 1985 Imago (film) 1986 Žofka a spol. 1989 O chlapečkovi, který se stal kredencí 1990 O vodovodu, který zpíval v opeře 1993 Indiánská princezna

literature

• Miloš Macourek : Adolf Born. Kresby z cest, pastely, ilustrace, akvarely, litografie, hlubotisky, známková tvorba, kostýmy . Slovart, Prague 1999, ISBN 80-7209191-3 .

Web links

Commons : Adolf Born  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Adolf Born in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature and other media by and about Adolf Born in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• Adolf Born in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Interview with Radio Prague: 75th birthday: illustrator, caricaturist and graphic artist Adolf Born, led by Sybille Korte, August 7, 2005
• Examples of his pictures and short biography
• Adolf Born and Paul Flora - A Prague Encounter , July 13, 2006, on www.radio.cz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The National Theater: Adolf Born ( English ) www.narodni-divadlo.cz. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
2. ↑ Cartoons Animated by Adolf Born . www.bcdb.com/. Retrieved on June 18, 2010.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ http://www.hirzel.de/universitas/archiv/fontaine.pdf ; Siggi Seuß: Indestructible through time. The Czech illustrator Adolf Born poses the Grimm fairy tales on Deutschlandfunk , March 19, 2005.
4. ^ Exhibition of Adolf Born in Ottawa | Embassy of the Czech Republic in Ottawa ( English ) Mzv.cz. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
5. ^ The stamp gallery of Czech and Slovak graphic art . Batz-hausen.de. Retrieved June 18, 2010.