Cyril Bouda

Cyril Bouda, christened Cyrill Mikoláš Bouda (14 November 1901 – 29 August 1984), was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator, professor at CTU and at Charles University in Prague.^[1][2][3][4]

Life

Born in Kladno, Bouda lived most of his life in Prague. Both of his parents were artists; his father was a high school teacher of drawing, his mother Anna Boudová Suchardová (sister of sculptors Stanislav Sucharda and Vojtěch Sucharda) was an artist and industrial designer. Mikoláš Aleš, the well-known Czech painter, was his godfather.^[5]

In 1923 Bouda graduated from the School of Arts and Crafts in Prague under František Kysela, and in 1926 he completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he studied under Max Švabinský. He was also an assistant to T. F. Šimon at the Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1932 he was a supply teacher of figurative drawing at an architecture department of the CTU.^[6] He was one of the professors of Bohuš Čížek, Jaroslav Brožek, Josef Liesler and others. In 1946–1972 he then worked as a teacher and later as a professor at the Faculty of Education of Charles University in Prague and in Brandýs nad Labem (1964–1972).

Among his students at Charles University was Jaroslav Weigel.^{[citation needed]}

His son, Jiří Bouda, also became a graphic artist.^{[citation needed]}

Work

At first he devoted himself to free graphics (drypoint, colour etching, lithography) and to painting pictures. However, he is known primarily as a versatile and very diligent author of applied graphics. Throughout his life he worked as a book illustrator, illustrating especially Czech fairy tales, legends, humorous and historical books (e.g. František Langer's Prague Legends, Václav Cibola's Old Prague Legends,