Author: Rodrigo G-V

"La gente le tiene miedo al silencio y a la soledad, porque cuando los padecen, comienzan a escuchar lo que realmente tienen en la cabeza." Entre olvido y cenizas hubo alguna vez hubo una vereda al hogar. Fanático de la lectura de misterio, ciencia ficción y terror; El desastre Chernobyl no deja de impresionarme.
Golden Age Bohemian: Artuš Scheiner

Early-twentieth century illustrations by Artuš Scheiner (1863 Benešov – 1938 Prague)

A Cotsen Children’s Library exhibit calls Scheiner “a prolific Bohemian artist, whose work was widely published in Czechoslovakia and Austria” and adds that “except for his illustrations for Božena Nemcová’s The Disobedient Kids and other Czecho-Slovak Fairy Tales (1921), Scheiner’s work is not well known in the English-speaking world.”

Cobbling some facts from a Google Translation of the Czech wikipedia entry:

Scheiner, working as a financial clerk in Prague, began drawing as a hobby. He was completely self-taught. Soon magazines in Austria, Germany, and Hungary began publishing his drawings. From 1897 he began publishing in various Czech magazines, and 1902 saw the release of his first book of fairy tale illustrations.