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 Vienna|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], 1957
- Škorenjček Matevžek, written by Saša Vuga, 1955
- Brezen, written by Andrej Šavli, 1955
- Trije bratje in trije razbojniki, written by Karel Širok, 1951
- Triglav: planinska idila, written by Fran Saleški Finžgar, 1950
- Oljki, written by Simon Gregorčič, 1944
- Mlada pota, written by Oton Župančič, 1921