Gvido Birolla


Gvido Birolla was a Slovene painter, illustrator and caricaturist, known for his political caricatures published in satirical newspapers of the time and his book illustrations.

Birolla was born in Trieste in 1881. His father was an Italian from Pazin and his mother a Slovene from kofja Loka. After his fathers death in 1884, his mother moved back to kofja Loka where Gvido grew up. He studied in Ljubljana and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He died in Ljubljana in 1963.

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