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Svatopluk Pitra was born in 1923 in Stenec, Czechoslovakia. He studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and in the late 1950s he became involved in animation films, as well as cartoon and animation design. In the early 1960s he moved to Canada and by the mid-1960s he settled in the United States. He created a large series of prints and paintings, drawings , animated films, and also worked on book and magazine illustrations, as well as designing album covers. His work has been honoured with awards and distinctions. He died in New York in 1993.