Albín Brunovský
(1935-1997) was a Czechoslovak and Slovak illustrator and painter. He started
his career in art by working on stage set and poster design. He studied at the
Brunovský
became professor Hložnik's assistant in 1963 and
lectured at the Academy, Department of Graphic Art and Book Illustrations, from
1966 to 1990. In 1981 he was appointed a professor, creating his own engraving
school several years later. Brunovský's work often
mirrored that of the modern movement, citation art.
He was also the designer of the last series of
Czechoslovak bank notes and designed several postage stamps. His illustrations
were primarily for children's books.
Every two years the Biennal
of Illustrations Bratislava is held. During this Biennal,
the BIB Secretariat prepares the BIB International Symposium, as an
accompanying event devoted to the most topical issues relating to the field of
children's illustrated literature. At the same time, as part of the UNESCO
mission towards the "third world", the UNESCO-BIB Albín
Brunovský International Workshop (as an international
seminar organized under the auspices of UNESCO) is held for illustrators from
the developing countries.
The workshop was first held in 1983 in cooperation with the UNESCO, the
BIB Secretariat, and Bratislava‘s Academy of Fine Arts. The workshop is named
after Albín Brunovský who,
as the founder of what is known as the
The workshops have always some special topic, are tied with a particular
story, a particular book, or a motif (e.g. Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, Lewis
Carroll's Alice In Wonderland, The Fantastic Zoology,
or the Myths of the Contemporary World, Traditional Things in a Non-traditional
Manner, and An International Calligraphic Dictionary).
Workshops usually last one week, the venue is usually
a Renaissance château in Moravany nad
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