Josef Lada, ansichtkaart 1948

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Czech Christmas... "The Christmas Nativity"

A Czech Christmas wouldn't be complete without Josef Lada's simply drawn carolers, snow-covered villages and nativity scenes. Josef Lada was born on December 17, 1887, in Hrusice. He was a Czech painter and writer and best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's WWI novel The Good Soldier Švejk. He produced nearly 600 cartoons of the Švejk characters, depicting Austria-Hungary officers and civil servants as incompetent, abusive and often drunk. Josef Lada Born in the small village of…

A Czech Christmas wouldn't be complete without Josef Lada's simply drawn carolers, snow-covered villages and nativity scenes. Josef Lada was born on December 17, 1887, in Hrusice. He was a Czech painter and writer and best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's WWI novel The Good Soldier Švejk. He produced nearly 600 cartoons of the Švejk characters, depicting Austria-Hungary officers and civil servants as incompetent, abusive and often drunk. Josef Lada Born in the small village of…

Illustration by Josef Lada

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josef lada. illustration. calendar. czechoslovakia. september

CZECH CHRISTMAS CARD

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Czech Christmas Stamp, by Josef Lada. "The Christmas Nativity."

Neopakovatelná atmosféra Vánoc dýchne na malé i velké čtenáře z nezaměnitelných Ladových obrázků a rovněž prozaických i básnických textů předních českých autorů Jaroslava Seiferta, Františka Hrubína, Jiřího Žáčka, Michala Černíka a dalších. ([výbor z díla Josefa Lady)