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Шаблон:Short description Franz August Rudolph de Santis Dobiáš (May 11, 1900 – January 10, 1976), known as Frank Dobias, was an Austrian-born American illustrator of children's books. Among many other works, his illustrations for the Japanese version of Little Black Sambo made the book a bestseller in Japan, selling well over a million copies between 1953 and 1988.

Biography

Dobias was born in Gloggnitz, Austria-Hungary, the son of Franz Dobiáš Sr. from Bohemia and Anna Maria Katharina Fondi, of Italian noble descent.[1] His father and uncle were landscape painters. His maternal grandfather and uncle, both named August Fondi, were architects. He grew up in Vienna, where he attended the Kunstgewerbeschule and Kunst Akademie in Vienna. Frank Dobias studied under Franz Cižek and Alfred Roller.[2]

He emigrated to the United States in 1923 and settled in Pennsylvania,[3] where he started his professional career as illustrator mostly for Macmillan Publishers books. The illustrations used in the Japanese best-seller were originally drawn for Little Black Sambo published from Macmillan in 1927.[4]

The Macmillan 1927 version was revived from Komichi Shobo Publishing, a Japanese publisher in Tokyo, in 2008.

Selected works

References

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  1. Vienna, Austria, Catholic Church Registers, 1600–1960
  2. Шаблон:Cite book
  3. Шаблон:Cite web
  4. Шаблон:Cite web