Marjan Amalietti (19 July 1923 – 1988) was a Slovene architect, also known for his illustrations, comics and caricatures.Marjan Amalietti on the UPPS - Udruženje za promociju i produkciju stripa (Union for the Promotion and Production of Comics) siteRazstava slovenskih stripov od leta 1917 dalje (Exhibition of Slovene Comics from 1917 Onwards), article in Delo 7 June 2011
Amalietti was born in Ormož in 1923. He studied architecture at what was then the Technical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana (now the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy) and graduated in 1954. From 1957 he also taught at the faculty. For many years his caricatures were regularly published in the satirical magazine Pavliha. He also illustrated numerous children's books. In 1978 he won the Levstik Award for his illustrations of Netočka Nezvanova and Ulenspiegel (Netochka Nezvanova and Ulenspiegel).
Selected Illustrated Works
Socializem v Kozji vasi (Socializm in Goatsville), written by Vid Pečjak, 1988 Majhen človek na veliki poti (A Small Man on a Big Road), written by Vida Brest, 1983 Deček na črnem konju (The Boy on the Black Horse), written by Leopold Suhodolčan, 1979 Kaplan Martin Čedermac (Chaplain Martin Čedermac), written by France Bevk, 1978 Potepuh in nočna lučka (The Vagabond and the Night Light), written by Svetlana Makarovič, 1977 Maruška Potepuška (Maruška's Adventures), picture book without text, 1977 Ulenspiegel (Ulenspiegel), written by Jiří Kolář, 1977 Netočka Nezvanova (Netochka Nezvanova ), written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1977
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