Comments on: Zdeněk Burian

By: Betty

Betty — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:40:13 +0000

Burian’s work certainly formed my first impression of pre-history. His work was so exciting to me as a youth. It was the first thing to inspire me to draw. As jp said above, it is wonderful to be able to put a name to his wonderous body of work. Betty

By: caroline peterson

caroline peterson — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:11:26 +0000

i love Znenek’s paintings and I’ve been looking all over for prints of his work. Does anyone know where i could perches a print of the terror birds that are shown on this page, or the one with two mammoths in a fall like setting called “mammuthus primigenius fraasi”?
(i think)

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:32:11 +0000

@Damian

Two pictures of Burian for Doyles “The Lost World” are published in the 1961 “Prehistoric Reptiles and Birds” by Josef Augusta, again displayed in Peter Wellhofers Encyclopedia of Pterosaurs from 1991.
Moreover, pictures can be seen here:
http://www.zdenekburian.websnadno.cz/nevydane-knihy.html?

By: Damian Waller

Damian Waller — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:38:54 +0000

allways loved this guys work! I was wondering if anyone knew if he did artwork for arthur conan doyles “The Lost World”.There was a great book in my library back in the 70′s with a scene of a pteradactyl stealing a meal from a campsite in the amazon. Can’t find the artwork anywhere!

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:25:01 +0000

Wow, thanks, Norman, these are great! For the benefit of other readers, I'll point out that the link Norman has posted is to a treasure trove of older dinosaur paintings, illustrations and book covers, including some by Burian. Readers may also want to check out Norman Felchle's web site, which includes galleries of his character design, concept art, comics and illustrations; not to mention a gallery of his own very cool dinosaur drawings.

By: Norman Felchle

Norman Felchle — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:58:05 +0000

I thought you might be interested in these old dinosaur images I put up on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambrian_park/

By: jp

jp — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:09:35 +0000

Thanks for putting a name — ZdenÄ›k Burian — to these iconic paintings I remember from my youth. Beautiful work from an artistic standpoint, and I love the vintage “classic” dinosaur look.