Svatopluk Pitra

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Svatopluk Pitra (9 March 1923 – 15 July 1993) was a Czech graphic designer, illustrator, cartoonist, designer of animated films and painter. He graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. At first he became known as a cartoonist. He began working on animated films in the late 1950s. In collaboration with directors such as Břetislav Pojar, Jiří Brdečka and Stanislav Látal, he designed cartoon and puppet films. In 1963 Pitra emigrated to Canada. He lived in the US from the mid-1960s.

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Life and work in Czechoslovakia 1923–1963 Svatopluk Pitra was born on 9 March 1923 in the small village of Štěnec (now part of Jenišovice). His childhood was spent in a former mill with his mother's parents. In 1929 he moved to Poděbrady along with his mother and older brother Bohumil, where he started attending elementary school. Even many years later he could still remember his first school assignment: drawing six rows of vertical lines that gradually transformed into ones. Starting in 1935 he attended the grammar school in Vysoké Mýto. Due to poor grades, in fourth year he had to leave for a two-year Amelioration School, which he successfully completed. During his two years of military service in the years 1945 to 1947 he was assigned to the cartographers. Subsequently, he went to work at the Pipe Rolling Mill in Chomutov as a technical draughtsman. As a reward for discovering an error in technical documentation, he received a recommendation for university studies in 1951 and was accepted to the Special Studio of Animated and Puppet Film under professor Adolf Hoffmeister at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. His classmates included Vratislav Hlavatý, Zdeněk Kirchner, Ladislav Rada, Šárka…Citește mai mult

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Animated film designer 1957–1963 Pitra's first animated films were made at the advertising business Propag, where he designed puppets for a piece by director Josef Kluge on family shopping at department stores Vánoce (Christmas) (1957). He also drew and self-directed Atomic Century (Timely Purchase of Fuel) (1957). He is also listed as designer and director for the advertising pieces An Idea from Heaven (1957) a That's Not How It's Done (1957), which promoted the advantages of newly introduced self-service retail. Of the four-part series Samoobsluha it is likely that only Who Asks for What has been preserved. The illustrated anecdotes in it were drawn by Pitra's colleague Jaroslav Malák, core cartoonist for Dikobraz and one of the founders of the association of caricaturists Polylegran. In 1959 Pitra took part in the film experiment Tucet mých tatínků, in which director Eduard Hofman used the work of thirteen different artists. For this "tragic cartoon", Pitra designed the character of the photographer dad. Aside from the director Eduard Hofman, himself, who drew the character of the policeman, the artists were, Jiří Brdečka (scuba diver), František Freiwillig (ship's captain), Vratislav Hlavatý (lifeguard), Adolf Hoffmeister (scientist), Ota Janeček (drummer), Josef Kábrt (opera singer), Jaroslav Kándl…Citește mai mult

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The American years 1963–1993 The reason was that in spring of 1963, Pitra took advantage of a trip to Cuba that Československá televise and Krátký film, had arranged for creative employees and, on the return during a stopover in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he applied for political asylum. The successful and confident forty-year-old graphic designer had no doubt he would make his way in this new environment just as well as he had in Czechoslovakia. The beginnings were indeed promising. Pitra found work in the government production and distribution company the National Film Board of Canada as a creator of advertising and promotional films. Of course he only accepted this well paid employment as a temporary solution until he could learn English and get a permit to travel to the USA. He was particularly happy with having his own home and also with the enormous amount of cheap jazz records. Though at night he dreamed of wild chases with Prague cops, he felt finally free. He started working on the animated film The Kind Dictator (Laskavý diktátor), the idea for which he wanted to pitch to a Canadian or American producer. At the time he sent his girlfriend and former classmate…Citește mai mult

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Exhibitions 1957 - Exhibition of Caricatures and Other Unpleasantries by Svatopluk Pitra and Vratislav Hlavatý, Czech Writer Gallery, Prague 1961 - To Be or Not To Be, group exhibition of anti-fascist and anti-war cartoons, Czechoslovak Writer Gallery, Prague 1961 - 40 Years of Czech Political Cartoons, House of the Lords of Kunštát, Graphics Department, Brno 1963 - Artistic Accompaniment to Czechoslovak Gramophone Records, North Bohemian Museum in Liberec, Liberec 1991 - Svatopluk Pitra, advertising cafe of Mladá fronta "U jednorožce", Prague 1997 - DDas tschechische Plakat der sechziger Jahre, Rosgartenmuseum, Konstanz 1997 - Czech Posters of the 60s from the Collection of the Moravian Gallery Brno, Museum of Applied Arts, Brno 2007 - Svatopluk Pitra: Paintings, Drawings, Gallery U Betlémské kaple, Prague 2010 - Svatopluk Pitra (1923-1993), Vysoké Mýto Municipal Gallery|Městská galerie Vysoké Mýto 2013 - SVATOPLUK PITRA, S.P. SVATOPLUK PITRA P.S. LAST MEETING, Nová síň Gallery, Prague

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Catalogues of group exhibitions Beze slov. Kniha kresleného humoru [Without Words. A Book of Cartoon Humour]. [Introduction] Miroslav Horníček. Prague: Mladá fronta, 1960 Být či nebýt [To Be or Not To Be. Anthology for 40th anniversary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia], Havlíčkův Brod: Krajské nakladatelství, 1961 40 let české politické karikatury. Katalog výstavy [40 Years of Czech Political Cartoons. Exhibition Catalogue]. [Introduction] Adolf Hoffmeister. Brno: House of Arts, 1961 Český plakát 60. let ze sbírek Moravské galerie Brno. Czech posters of the ’60s from the collections of the Moravian Gallery Brno. [Introductory text by Marta Sylvestrová]. Brno: Moravian Gallery, 1997

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Book and magazine illustrations PICK, Jiří Robert. Kladyátor [Kladiator]. Prague: Mladá fronta, 1958 VACHEK, Emil. Až se ucho utrhne [When the Bough Breaks]. Prague: Československý spisovatel, 1959 JIROTKA, Zdeněk. Saturnin. Prague: Československý spisovatel, 1959 HOFFMEISTER Adolf (ed.) Labyrint (Výbor západních vědecko-fantastických povídek) [Labyrinth (Anthology of Western Science-Fiction Stories). Prague: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1962 GRIN, Alexandr. Pension. Světová literatura. 1962, vol. VII, no. 1, pp. 248–255 CHRISTIE, Agatha. Svědek pro obžalobu. Světová literatura [Witness for the Prosecution. World Literature]. 1962, vol. VII, no. 2, pp. 242–256 HAMMETT, Dashiell. Muž, který stál v cestě. Světová literatura [The Vicious Circle. World Literature]. 1962, vol. VII, no. 3, pp. 245–255 MATSUMOTO, Seicho. Neštěstí. Světová literatura [The Accident. World Literature]. 1962, vol. VII, no. 4, pp. 235–256 SIMENON, Georges. Chudáka by nikdo nevraždil. Světová literatura [No One Would Kill a Poor Man. World Literature]. 1962, vol. VII, no. 5, pp. 238–256

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Record covers Vítězné písně 3. ročníku soutěže Hledáme písničku pro všední den [Winning Songs of 3rd Annual Competition 'Looking for a Song for Everyday'], Supraphon, 1961 George Gershwin, Koncert F Dur pro klavír a orchestr [Concerto in F for Solo Piano and Orchestra], Supraphon 1961 Jazz v Československu 1961 [Jazz in Czechoslovakia 1961], Supraphon, 1962 Československý jazz 1962 [Czechoslovak Jazz 1962], Supraphon, 1963

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Filmography (designer) Klobouk ve křoví [Hat in the Bushes], graduate animated film, AAAD in Prague, 1957 Atomové století (Včasný nákup paliva) [Atomic Century (Timely Purchase of Fuel)], colour animated advertising film, 30 m, directed by Svatopluk Pitra, 1957 Vánoce [Christmas], colour puppet advertising film, 75 m, directed by Josef Kluge, 1957 Nápad s nebes (Samoobsluha II) [Idea from Heaven (Self-Service Shop II)], animated advertising film, 50 m, directed by Svatopluk Pitra, 1957 Tak se to nedělá (Samoobsluha IV) Tak se to nedělá (Samoobsluha IV) [That's Not How It's Done (Self-Service Shop IV)], animated advertising film, directed by Svatopluk Pitra, 1957 Tři muži [Three Men], colour, animated, 172 m, directed by Vladimír Lehký, 1959 Tucet mých tatínků [My Dozen Dads], colour, animated, 338 m, directed by Eduard Hofman, 1959 Jak zaříditi byt [How To Furnish a Flat], colour, limited animation and puppets, directed by Břetislav Pojar, 1959 Sláva (Komín) [Fame (The Chimney)], colour, animated, 372 m, directed by Břetislav Pojar, 1959 Pštros (Pštros Jonathan) Ostrich (Jonathan the Ostrich)], colour, puppets, 277 m, directed by Bohuslav Šrámek, 1960 Cecilie 470 [Cecilia 470], colour, animated, 254 m, directed by Jan Karpaš, 1961 Plivník dlaždiče Housky [Tile-Setter Houska's Chicken-Imp], colour, puppets, 571 m, directed…Citește mai mult

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Published texts MACOUREK, Miloš. Dva mladí karikaturisté. Výtvarná práce. 1957, roč. 5, č. 10, s. 8–9 HOFFMEISTER, Adolf. Svatopluk Pitra a Vratislav Hlavatý, dříve vdova. Výtvarná práce. 1957, roč. 5, č. 10, s. 9 Výsledky soutěže literárních novin. Literární noviny (II), 1959, roč. 8, číslo 42, s. 6 BRUKNER, Josef. Co nového v české karikatuře. Plamen. 1960, roč. 2, č. 10, s. 141–142 Slovník českých a slovenských výtvarných umělců 1950–2003 (XI. Pau - Pop). Ostrava: Výtvarné centrum Chagall, 2003. ISBN 80-86171-16-7 HORÁKOVÁ, Ljuba. Svatopluk Pitra. Kresby an obrazy ze sbírky Ireny Bryndové-Pitrové. Praha: Irena Pitrová, 2007. ISBN 978-80-239-9398-1 RYŠKA, Pavel (ed.). SVATOPLUK PITRA: grafik, ilustrátor a výtvarník animovaných filmů (1) Tucet mých tatínků. Olomouc: Pastiche Filmz, 2015. ISBN 978-80-87662-10-6 RYŠKA, Pavel a ŠRÁMEK, Jan. Pionýři a roboti. Československá ilustrace a vizuální kultura 1950–1970. Praha: Nakladatelství Paseka; Brno: Fakulta výtvarných umění VUT, 2016. ISBN 978-80-7432-745-2

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Svatopluk Pitra Kromě těch neonů tady není nic... (článek na stránkách o československé vizuální kultuře)