Josef Lada
1887
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1957
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Czechoslovakia
languages spoken, written or signed: Czech
occupation: writer, illustrator, children's writer, painter, visual artist, caricaturist, scenographer, costume designer
award received: Národní umělec
Josef Lada (born 17 December 1887 in Hrusice, Bohemia – 14 December 1957 in Prague, buried at Olšany Cemetery) was a Czech painter, illustrator and writer. He is best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War I novel The Good Soldier Švejk, having won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1963. The asteroid 17625 Joseflada has been named after him. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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