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Adolf Born
Adolf Born

Adolf Born (born June 12, 1930) is a Czech painter and illustrator, caricaturist and film-maker.

Adolf Born was born on 12 June in 1930 in the town of Ceske Velenice on the Czech-Austrian border. In 1935 the family moved to Prague where he still lives and works.
During 1950-55 he studied at the school of Applied Art in Prague Department of Caricature and Newspaper Drawing, headed by Prof. A. Pelc. Since the 1960s his works have been exhibited all over the world.

He first became known to the public as a cartoonist. He published his humorous drawings in all the important magazines and participated in group exhibitions and caricature exhibitions, from some of which he brought back prestigious awards. In 1974 he was awarded a Grand Prix prize and proclaimed “The Cartoonist of the Year” in Montreal, Canada.

After censorship prohibited the publishing of his cartoons in 1973, he devoted more of his time to animated films, book illustrations and graphics. He merged graphics with cartoons and so he arrived at a new artistic expression. His cosmopolitan humour, his selection of topics rooted in the history of his country (Austro-Hungarian monarchy or the Rudolfinian period) and finally his special world of animals make him famous all over the world.

He made many ex libris, mostly by the technique of colour lithography. His pictures often mix fantasy worlds, people and animals. Apart from his graphics including well over a hundred exhibitions, and his illustration of literally hundreds of books including some international classics, he has been active in theatre costume and set design and in animated film.

 

 
Portait of Sultan Mehmed III from Guiseppe
etching; 2011
43 x 44 cm; 957.00 €
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Susanne and group of lustful old men
colour lithography; 2011
54 x 43,5 cm; 702.00 €
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Meeting Sultan Selim III
colour lithography; 2011
43 x 59,5 cm; 638.00 €
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Harem girl comes to cycling race announced by Sultan Selim III
colour lithography; 2011
38 x 49 cm; 634.00 €
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Great illusionist
colour lithography; 2011
49 x 38 cm; 719.00 €
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Dance teacher
colour lithography; 2011
43,5 x 53,5 cm; 702.00 €
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African airship navigation
colour lithography; 2011
49 x 33 cm; 634.00 €
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Performance with the trained animals
etching; undated
39,5 x 30 cm; 830.00 €
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Sunday in Bretagne
colour lithography; undated
37 x 49 cm; 634.00 €
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The Luncheon on the Grass with Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová
colour lithography; undated
33 x 48 cm; 609.00 €
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The world map by course of last piece of knowledge
colour lithography; 2007
43,5 x 54 cm; 660.00 €
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Leonardo portraiture his cat Líza
colour lithography; 2008
37 x 49 cm; 609.00 €
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The Dutch bikers
colour lithography; 1998
35 x 45,5 cm; 617.00 €
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Didactic blackboard
colour lithography; 2008
49,5 x 65,5 cm; 638.00 €
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Spray over the Pelopones
colour lithography; 1995
33 x 49 cm; 609.00 €
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Stormy inspiration
colour lithography; 2010
33 x 22 cm; 319.00 €
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Wallenstein´s fligt away to Frydland
etching; 2009
49 x 39 cm; 957.00 €
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Envoys of darkness
colour lithography; 1990
38 x 48,5 cm; 634.00 €
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Dancing cats
lithography; 2010
11 x 21 cm; 51.00 €
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Pleasures of the Dutch painters
etching; 2001
42 x 28 cm; 634.00 €
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Animal which Brehm never met
colour lithography; 2009
43 x 54,5 cm; 634.00 €
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Animals mix in with baloonists
colour lithography; 2009
43 x 32,5 cm; 609.00 €
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Sultan Selim is learning skating ....
colour lithography; 2010
37 x 49 cm; 634.00 €
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Temptation of Saint Anthony
etching; 2010
39 x 49,5 cm; 847.00 €
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Exotic animals
colour lithography; 2001
36 x 46 cm; 417.00 €
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Animals and people
colour lithography; 2007
22 x 20,5 cm; 191.00 €
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Polite pilgrims
colour lithography; 2002
33 x 48,5 cm; 545.00 €
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Vasquo da Gama arrives to India
colour lithography; 2005
43,5 x 33 cm; 591.00 €
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Escape of Winter King
colour lithography; 2003
33 x 48 cm; 634.00 €
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Kidnapping Europe
colour lithography; 2004
33 x 43,5 cm; 464.00 €
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Triumphal arrival of Bacchus
colour lithography; 2008
38 x 49 cm; 591.00 €
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Remrandt and his model
colour lithography; 2001
43,5 x 54 cm; 591.00 €
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Welcome of Christopher Columbus
colour lithography; 1997
66 x 49,5 cm; 591.00 €
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Postcard from Bretagne
colour lithography; 2003
42,5 x 48,5 cm; 609.00 €
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Strange meeting at Pelopones
colour lithography; 2000
43,5 x 54 cm; 634.00 €
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Ulysses allured by sing of Sirens
colour lithography; 2006
37 x 49 cm; 609.00 €
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Thaw in the Netherlands
etching; 2008
30 x 39,5 cm; 762.00 €
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Mermaid snared in Dutch Edam
colour lithography; 2005
43,5 x 54 cm; 591.00 €
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Rarity hunters for Emperor Rudolf
colour lithography; 2008
32,5 x 48,5 cm; 549.00 €
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Royal joyride along the lake
colour lithography; 1998
49 x 65,5 cm; 634.00 €
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End of the performance
colour lithography; 2001
38 x 49 cm; 591.00 €
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Columbus´ discoveries
colour lithography; 2004
49 x 65 cm; 591.00 €
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Josef Manes portrays Miroslav Tyrs
colour lithography; 2009
38 x 49 cm; 609.00 €
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Joseph and Putifarka
colour lithography; 2002
33 x48,5 cm; 489.00 €
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Giacomo Casanova sails from Venice
colour lithography; 2009
43 x 54 cm; 638.00 €
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Emperor Rudolph becomes acquainted with new gains to the cabinet of curiosities
etching; 2007
28 x 42 cm; 591.00 €
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Chinese illusionists
etching; undated
31,5 x 24,5 cm; 549.00 €
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Explorer Alberto Vojtech Fric with Indian Cherwuisch
colour lithography; 2000
38 x 53,5 cm; 634.00 €
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Birdwatcher´s Snack
colour lithography; undated
41 x 33 cm;
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Aphrodite welcomes Satyr at her house
colour lithography; 2011
33 x 49 cm;
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Fish following joyful couple
colour lithography; 2010
49 x 65 cm;
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The last portrait of Darwin
etching; 2001
17,5 x 14 cm;
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Well masked spies
colour lithography; 1990
32 x 49 cm;
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On the way to Europe
etching; 2001
17,5 x 14 cm;
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Fowler
colour lithography; undated
21 x 10,5 cm;
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Cats in love
lithography; 2010
11 x 21 cm;
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On the way to harem
colour lithography; undated
10 x 21 cm;
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Guard Watching Well Masked Spies
etching; 2010
49,5 x 61,5 cm;
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Urgent Letter
colour lithography; 2010
33,5 x 22,5 cm;
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Greeting from Siena
colour lithography; 2010
48 x 57,5 cm;
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Singing Tomcat
colour lithography; 2009
10,5 x 15 cm;
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Performing with crocodile
colour lithography; 2005
30,5 x 20 cm;
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Pleasant trip
serigraphy; 2006
17,5 x 23 cm;
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Meeting with seemingly nice aborigines
colour lithography; 2005
40,5 x 28,5 cm;
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Succesfull scientist with cloned flea
colour lithography; 2002
45 x 58 cm;
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Fish market in the Netherlands
colour lithography; 2004
36,5 x 49 cm;
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Naughty party
serigraphy; 2005
17,5 x 22,5 cm;
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Talk with Satyr
colour lithography; 1994
38 x 53,5 cm;
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Rembrandt van Rijn and his models
colour lithography; undated
43,5 x 54 cm;
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Greek philosopher
colour lithography; 2009
18 x 10,5 cm;
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Greek siesta
colour lithography; 2004
33 x 48,5 cm;
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Arrival of Karel Havlicek Borovsky to Brixen
colour lithography; undated
35 x 49,5 cm;
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Temptation of Peter Paul Rubens
etching; 2006
39,5 x 49,5 cm;
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Postcard from Taiwan
colour lithography; 2003
43 x 54 cm;
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colour lithography; 2009
21 x 10,5 cm;
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Night romance
colour lithography; 2006
33,5 x 22 cm;
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Return from colonies
colour lithography; 2001
58,5 x 44,5 cm;
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Lovemaking of Satyrs and Naiads
etching; 2006
29,5 x 39,5 cm;
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Madame Butterfly
colour lithography; 2006
21 x 11 cm;
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Love between saurians
colour lithography; 2004
8 x 15 cm;
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La Fontain is going to visit Madame de Sévigné
colour lithography; 1999
33 x 48,5 cm;
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Pied Piper and naughty children
colour lithography; 2003
37 x 49,5 cm;
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Circus-rider
colour lithography; 2003
45,5 x 35,5 cm;
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Kara Mustafa above Vienna
etching; 1999
41 x 29,5 cm;
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Jan Neruda caught in the harem
colour lithography; 2009
38 x 49 cm;
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Dutch idyll
colour lithography; 1987
50 x 40,5 cm;
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Two foreign ministers exchanging their largesses
colour etching; 2000
49 x 39,5 cm;
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Dürer´s journey to Venice via Alps
colour lithography; 2005
43,5 x 54 cm;
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Taming the lion
colour lithography; 2005
30,5 x 19,5 cm;
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Travellers on the billy-goat
colour lithography; 2009
10,5 x 21 cm;
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Dogs howling to the Moon
drawing; undated
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Addition to harem
colour lithography; 1996
38,5 x 49 cm;
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Marco Polo on the journey
colour lithography; 2002
49 x 65;
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