Rudolf Těsnohlídek [SEP] manner of death
Rudolf Těsnohlídek
Rudolf Těsnohlídek (7 June 1882 in Čáslav - 12 January 1928 in Brno, suicide) was a Czech writer, poet, journalist and translator. He also used the pseudonym "Arnošt Bellis".
Life.
He attended secondary school (gymnasium) in Hradec Králové and later started to study Czech, history and French at university in Prague but didn't finish.
Starting in 1908, he was a contributor to the Brno newspaper "Lidové noviny". His serialized novel "Liška Bystrouška" (
his primary Professor was Julius Mařák. He later studied graphic art in Munich; specializing in landscapes and animals.
The editor of the newspaper "Lidové Noviny" passed on some of Lolek's illustrations of a rural tale about a gamekeeper and a vixen to Czech author Rudolf Těsnohlídek and their collaboration (literally translated as "Vixen Sharp-ears") appeared in the newspaper from 7 April to 23 June 1920, later being expanded into a novel by Těsnohlídek. The story was used as the basis for Leoš Janáček's opera