DOBROVOLSKY Jaroslav - A portfolio of exlibrises. [1927-1930]

DOBROVOLSKY Jaroslav - A portfolio of exlibrises. [1927-1930]. S. 20 pp. with ins. of ex-librises made mainly in woodcut. Each exlibris signed in pencil by the artist. Height: 24 cm. Period cardboard folder. Exlibris. Browning of the margins
On the face of the card folder. ownership stamp of Rudolf Mękicki (1887-1942) - Polish medalist, heraldist, art historian and museologist.

Jaroslav Dobrovolsky (1895 - 1942) - Czech artist, printmaker and educator. He worked mainly in woodcut, linocut and etching. He was appointed chairman of the Czech delegation to the International Exhibition of Exlibris in Los Angeles in 1936. After Germany occupied the Czech Republic, Dobrovolsky joined the Defense of the Nation, the largest anti-Nazi resistance organization in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He was arrested in September 1940 and imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp. He died in the camp in 1942.