BEZRUC, Petr: JEN JEDENKRAT.
Basen ze Slezskych pisni.
Two lithographs and graphic design Rudolf Gajdos.
Blatna, Praha and Breclav, Anna Sussova, Bret. Pracka, Alois Kucik, 1935.
8°, not paged [20]. Original sewn brochure. Original cover.
Private press for participants of seventh meeting of Moravian bibliophiles in Breclav. - Dutch handmade paper, copy number 7 from limited edition of 160 copies. - Petr Bezruc's signature with pen on title page, dated 14. 6. 1948. Both lithographs signed by Rudolf Gajdos in pencil. - Cover with signs of very little wear, text block intact.- Collector's condition. - Language: Czech.
<ID:BIB24759> Price: 1200,- CZK

Petr Bezruc (September 15, 1867, Opava, Austria-Hungary - February 17, 1958, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia)
Czech poet and novelist.
After graduation at the Brno grammar school he studied classical philology. During World War I he was arrested for alleged authorship of an anti-Austrian poem. After the war he was appointed head of the railway post office in Brno, but he resigned the next day. In 1928 he retired. He lived in Brno, then in Kostelec na Hané and in Branka near Opava. In 1939 he settled in Kostelec na Hané and stayed there for the rest of his life.
Selected bibliography:
Slezske cislo, 1903
Slezske pisne, 1909
Moravska zem a moravska rec, 1923
Republika pred svatym Petrem, 1923
Stuzkonoska modra, 1930
Lolo a druhove - 1937
Paralipomena I - 1937
Paralipomena II - 1938
Rudolf Gajdos (January 26, 1908, Merin near Zdar nad Sazavou, Austria-Hungary - October 7, 1975, Valtice near Breclav, Czechoslovakia)
Czech painter, graphic artist, pedagogue.
Study: 1928 - 1929, Vysoka skola technicka in Brno; 1929 - 1936, Akademie vytvarnych umeni, Praha, prof. Max Svabinsky.
Selected Solo Exhibitions: 1976, Rudolf Gajdos: Kresby z cest, Oblastni galerie vytvarneho umeni, Gottwaldov (Zlin); 1977 Rudolf Gajdos: Retrospektiva, Oblastni galerie vytvarneho umeni, Gottwaldov (Zlin); 1983 Rudolf Gajdos: Vyber z dila k umelcovym nedozitym 75. narozeninam, Galerie vytvarneho umeni v Hodonine.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 1936, I. jarni Zlinsky salon; 1937, II. Zlinsky salon; 1940, Matka, dite, rodina ve vytvarnem umeni, Pavilon ve Smetanovych sadech, Olomouc; 1943, Umelci narodu, Klub pratel umeni v Olomouci, vystavni sin, Olomouc; 1950 - 1951, Vytvarna uroda 1950, Dum vytvarneho umeni, Praha; 1953, 140. clenska vystava SVUM, Dum umelcu, Hodonín; 1965, Plakate aus der Tschechoslowakei, Munchner Stadtmuseum, Mnichov.
Selected Literature: 1993, Novy slovnik ceskoslovenskych vytvarnych umelcu (I. dil; A - K); 1998, Slovnik ceskych a slovenskych vytvarnych umelcu 1950 - 1998 (II. D - G).