Steven Heller on a graphic design master, Adolf Hoffmeister

"Meet Adolf Hoffmeister (1902–1973), a cartoonist, painter, graphic designer, poet, novelist and former editor of the Czech daily newspaper Lidové noviny and the literary paper Literární noviny" writes Steven Heller on one of Europe's masters of graphic design. 

"Hoffmeister founded an anti-fascist magazine, Simplicus, in the 1930s after the German satiric magazine Simplicissimus was banned by the Nazis. If that was not enough, he wrote the libretto for a children’s opera, Brundibar (later done by Maurice Sendak), with music by the Czech composer Hans Krása; the opera was performed by children in the Terezín concentration camp where Krása was imprisoned by the Nazis".

Read his tribute here