Animals We Love Book 2
Mirko Hanak
Hardcover
(Scroll Press, March 15, 1972)
MIRKO HANAK, another master-illustrator from the Czech republic, was born in 1921 in Prague. His amazing watercolors are a cross between Chinese traditional watercolors, Japanese painting-style and the Czech culture in illustration. Hanak was famous for his distinctive illustrations with natural themes, portraying life of plants and animals with broad watercolor strokes mixed with beautifully balanced finer brushwork on rice paper, all that in stunning compositions and colors full of life. his work includes children books like BAMBI as well as exquisite stamp-designs. he died at the height of his career in 1971 from leukemia. (on-line description)