Happy 80th, Adolf Born! (Czech painter/filmmaker & 2-time ..

He lives in Prague and was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen
Award for Illustration in 1986 and 2008.

http://www.gallery.cz/gallery/en/Vystava/2000_06/Ramec_V.html
(article on Born, with many illustrations on the right)

From Wikipedia:

"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."

http://msnyder.typepad.com/the_labyrinth/2010/04/adolf-born-beastly-re...ives-an
(about Born's humor)
Excerpts:
"Beasts, the fantastic, and humans co-mingle comfortably in Born's
world such at this group of travelers in 'Duer's Tour Through Alps To
Venice'; or Leonardo doing a portrait of his cat Liza with her
enigmatic smile and beasty-birdy onlookers; or an 'Intimate Meeting'
between a suave dog and a young woman sharing a glass of wine (too
much like my daughter and her beloved pit bull), and finally, a
hilarious version of Leda and the Swan."

http://www.galeriekrause.ch/born-adolf-00.htm
(short bio, photo, pictures and awards list)

http://pollocksthebollocks.com/2009/06/04/adolf-born/
(short piece about his work)

http://www.narodni-divadlo.cz/Default.aspx?jz=en&dk=umelec.aspx&ju=136
(this includes names of Czech authors he's illustrated)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0097013/
(filmography as director, writer and painter)

http://www.ct24.cz/kultura/17427-adolf-born-se-vystavou-vyznava-z-lask...-tureck
(video - in Czech)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBA9z2TiYgU
(another)

http://www.mzv.cz/ottawa/en/culture_and_promotion/x2007/exhibition_of_...lf_born
(photos of Born at a 2007 exhibition)

Unfortunately, I can't find a simple bibliography for him! According
to one source, he wrote 3 books in German - one is "Born's Animal
Kingdom"(1986) and illustrated more than 150 books in Czech by other
authors - 230 in all languages or so. He's illustrated "Robinson
Crusoe" twice, plus Jean de la Fontaine's "Fables," "Grimm's Fairy
Tales," "The Jungle Book," "The Three Musketeers," "The Man with the
Pipe and Violin" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and, in the 1980s,
reportedly was working on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Lenona.