Gvido Birolla

Gvido Birolla was a Slovene painter, illustrator and caricaturist, known for his political caricatures published in satirical newspapers of the time and his book illustrations.
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.

Selected illustrated works

Leta moje mladosti, written by Fran Saleški Finžgar, 1967, written by Josip Jurčič, 1963 Repoštev, gospodar krkonošev, written by Johann Karl August Musäus, 1957Škorenjček Matevžek, written by Saša Vuga, 1955Brezen, written by Andrej Šavli, 1955Trije bratje in trije razbojniki, written by Karel Širok, 1951Triglav: planinska idila, written by Fran Saleški Finžgar, 1950 Oljki, written by Simon Gregorčič, 1944Mlada pota, written by Oton Župančič, 1921