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Jiří Trnka

Czech animator, illustrator, painter, director, scriptwriter, scenographer, sculptor and university educator (1912-1969).

Born February 24th, 1912 in Plzeň. [ref]

Died December 30th, 1969 at 57 years old in Prague. [ref]

Occupations
animator, drawer, film director, film producer, graphic artist, illustrator, painter, pedagogue, puppet designer, puppeteer, scenographer, screenwriter, sculptor, teacher, writer

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. Martin Luther King Jr.