Gvido Birolla
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.
Also recorded as Gvidon Birolla · Guido Birolla
Gvido Birolla
- Name
- Gvido Birolla
- Born
- 12 June 1881
- Birthplace
- Trieste, Italy
- Died
- 29 May 1963
- Place of death
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Field
- painting, illustrating
- Training
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Nationality
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Italy · Cisleithania
- Occupation
- caricaturist · writer · painter · illustrator · artist
- Fields
- painting
- Languages
- Slovene
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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.
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Gvido Birolla (1881–1963) was an artist, caricaturist and illustrator, among other activities, a national of Cisleithania and the Kingdom of Italy. The artist was born in Trieste and died in Ljubljana. Activity centred on painting. Languages used include Slovene.
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• Name — Gvido Birolla • Born — 12 June 1881 • Birthplace — Trieste, Italy • Died — 29 May 1963 • Place of death — Ljubljana, Slovenia • Field — painting, illustrating • Training — Academy of Fine Arts Vienna • Works — Painting, illustration and caricature
Biography
Biography
Birolla was born in Trieste in 1881. His father was an Italian from Pazin and his mother a Slovene from Škofja Loka. After his father's death in 1884, his mother moved back to Škofja 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 Širok's book Trije bratje in trije razbojniki (Three Brothers and Three Robbers).
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Gvido Birolla is recorded as a citizen of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Recorded with the occupation caricaturist.
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1881
Gvido Birolla was born on 12 June 1881.
1963
Gvido Birolla died on 29 May 1963.
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Trieste.
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Ljubljana.
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Selected illustrated works
• Leta moje mladosti (The Years of My Youth), written by Fran Saleški Finžgar, 1967 (illustrated together with Ive Šubic • Jurij Kozjak, slovenski janičar (Jurij Kozjak, the Slovene Janissary), written by Josip Jurčič, 1963 • Repoštev, gospodar krkonošev, written by Johann Karl August Musäus, 1957 • Škorenjček Matevžek (Matevžek the Little Boot), written by Saša Vuga, 1955 • Brezen (The Abyss), written by Andrej Šavli, 1955 • Trije bratje in trije razbojniki (Three Brothers and Three Robbers), written by Karel Širok, 1951 • Triglav: planinska idila (Triglav: A Mountain Idyll), written by Fran Saleški Finžgar, 1950 • Oljki (To the Olive Tree), written by Simon Gregorčič, 1944 • Mlada pota (Paths of Youth), written by Oton Župančič, 1921
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- “Gvido Birolla”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Gvido Birolla on the obrazisrcaslovenije.si site, a Web Biographical Lexicon of Central Slovenia.
- 2.[http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-QB8EUJP1 Andrej Pavlovec: Slikar Gvidon Birolla (Ob razstavi v Loškem muzeju v počastitev njegove osemdesetletnice) The Painter Gvido Birolla (On the Occasion of an Exhibition of His Work in the Škofja Loka Museum to Honour his 80th Birthday) in Loški razgledi 1961 on the Digital Library of Slovenia site]
- 3.The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site.
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