Věra Hainzová

The paintings are not numbered in ascending order according to the time when Věra Hainzová-Bruneová painted them. They were subsequently numbered at once when the "Dobřichovice and Brunšov Watercolors exhibition" was organized in 2006, according to thematic grouping – for example, all the paintings of Procháska's Villa Luisa were grouped under the numbers 10a, 10b, 10c and 10d, even though they were painted successively in different years.

However, her largest complete work is a set of 83 watercolors of villas in the town of Dobřichovice, which she painted between 2000 and 2015. In it, she captured the villas of Dobřichovice before World War II, according to her memories from her youth.

Hainzová began her artistic activity at the Centre for Folk Art Creation (ÚLUV, later called Krásná jizba) designing textile patterns. From 1958, she was employed for 44 years at the Bratři v triku cartoon studio, first in Prague in Klárov, later in Barrandov Studios. As an animator, she breathed life into dozens of cartoon characters in hundreds of films – the most famous is certainly the animated series The Mole by Zdeněk Miler, which gained international popularity. There are currently 49 Mole episodes.

Věra Hainzová (maiden name Bruneová) studied at the State School of Graphics in Prague under Professor Zdenek Balaš and Professor Petr Dillinger and at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague under Professor Antonín Kybal, where she successfully graduated in 1956.

Věra Hainzová (née Bruneová; 24 November 1930 – 14 July 2018) was a Czech academic painter and animator of cartoons for children, especially Zdeněk Miler's popular The Mole character.