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Prague, Orbis, 1929. Engraved title page, with 95 full-page black and white woodcuts, pp. 5-14 of text in Czech by Arne Novak, light and usual uniform browning, small tear without loss on the internal margin of the flyleaf and the paper with the colophon, editorial paperback in rigid cardboard with illustration on the front cover, shirt illustrated, minor defects. § Together in the lot, by the same author, Kristus, Prague, Tiskem A Nakladem Noviny, 1944. With 35 full-page black and white woodcuts, editorial binding in half leather and cardboard, title engraved on the plate front, slight defects.
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FIRST GRAPHIC NOVEL WRITTEN BY A WOMAN, FIRST EDITION.
Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová (31 July 1894, Vyškov, Moravia - 28 March 1980, Brno, Czechoslovakia) was an illustrator, writer of graphic novelist and painter, recognized as the first female graphic novel writer.
Born in the Moravia region, she moved to Brno in 1913 and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1919. In 1923 he moved to Paris thanks to a scholarship to study engraving techniques and it was in France that he discovered the woodcut novels of the Belgian artist Frans Masereel, considered the precursor of the graphic novel genre, which was a source of inspiration for Helena. He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1924 and 1930, as well as in Antwerp (1925), Philadelphia (1926), Zurich (1927), Buenos Aires (1928) and Vienna (1934).
Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová (31 July 1894, Vyškov, Moravia - 28 March 1980, Brno, Czechoslovakia) was an illustrator, writer of graphic novelist and painter, recognized as the first female graphic novel writer.
Born in the Moravia region, she moved to Brno in 1913 and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1919. In 1923 he moved to Paris thanks to a scholarship to study engraving techniques and it was in France that he discovered the woodcut novels of the Belgian artist Frans Masereel, considered the precursor of the graphic novel genre, which was a source of inspiration for Helena. He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1924 and 1930, as well as in Antwerp (1925), Philadelphia (1926), Zurich (1927), Buenos Aires (1928) and Vienna (1934).
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