Helena Zmatlíková (19 November 1923,
Prague – 4 April 2005, Prague) was a
Czech illustrator
An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...
, especially of
children's books. For her works she received numerous awards. She also participated in
the 1958 World Exhibition.
Career
Zmatlikova's paintings, which appeared in books published all over the world in more than 20 languages, have been popular with children for decades. The best known of these include:
*
František Hrubín
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's ''Paleček''
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Bohumil Říha´s ''Honzíkova cesta'' a ''O letadélku Káněti''
* Czech edition of
Astrid Lindgren
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´s ''
The Six Bullerby Children'' (published by Albatros)
* those written by
Eduard Petiška.
Personal life
Her nephew is
Pavel Rychetsky, a lawyer and politician. Her son Ivan Zmatlík was married to the actress , with whom he has a daughter, Helena.
She was buried at the
Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague.
Tribute
On November 19, 2013,
Google celebrated her 90th birthday with a
Google Doodle.
References
External links
Biography (in Czech)Short bio (in English)
Czech illustrators
Artists from Prague
1923 births
2005 deaths
Czech women artists
Czech women illustrators
Czech children's book illustrators
20th-century Czech painters
Burials at Vyšehrad Cemetery
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