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Filmmaker · Czechia

Jiří Trnka

Died in 1969

Jiří Trnka was born on 24 February 1912 in Plzeň; his drawing teacher, Josef Skupa, brought him into his puppet theatre and urged him to enter the School of Decorative Arts in Prague. He directed a puppet stage, designed sets and costumes for the National Theatre, and in 1945 took over the artistic direction of the animation studio Bratři v triku before founding his own. An illustrator and painter, he taught at the Decorative Arts school in 1968 and 1969 and died in Prague on 30 December 1969.

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