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As one art critic once said, the paintings of Josef Lada accompany Czechs
from cradle to grave. He is as well known for his illustrations of fairy
tales and children’s readers as he is for his landscapes, which each
Christmas are printed thousands of times over on the front of the
nation’s Christmas cards. Lada was also the artist who gave the grinning,
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Current AffairsGrandson of Josef Lada discusses artist’s classic Christmas cards and more
Cards featuring the work of Josef Lada are an integral part of Czech
Christmas. Lada is best known internationally for illustrations of the Good
Soldier Švejk, but his simply drawn carol singers, snow covered villages
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Czechs in HistoryJosef Lada – landscape painter and Švejk illustrator
As one art critic once said, the paintings of Josef Lada accompany Czechs
from cradle to grave. He is as well known for his illustrations of fairy
tales and children’s readers as he is for his landscapes, which each
Christmas are printed thousands of times over on the front of the
nation’s Christmas cards. Lada was also the artist who gave the grinning,
rotund Good Soldier Švejk his form.
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ArtsSatirist, illustrator and landscape painter Josef Lada
Josef Lada’s paintings have reached iconic status here in the Czech
Republic, and you may be familiar with them too, without even knowing it.
Lada was the illustrator who gave the smiling, rotund, Good Soldier Svejk
his form. In the course of his career, he illustrated over 200 books -
some, fairytale anthologies for children, others, like Svejk, intended for
grown ups. Now Josef Lada is the subject of a major new retrospective in
Prague. More
Current AffairsNew collection "reunites" author Jaroslav Hasek with illustrator Josef Lada
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into 60 languages, it is perhaps the best known Czech work of fiction of
all time. Now, over 80 years after its publication, its author Jaroslav
Hasek and illustrator Josef Lada have been reunited in a new collection.
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