Career
The editor of the newspaper Lidové Noviny passed on some of Lolek"s illustrations of a rural tale about a gamekeeper and a vixen to Czechoslovakian author Rudolf Těsnohlídek and their collaboration (literally translated as Vixen Sharp-ears) appeared in the newspaper from 7 April to 23 June 1920, later being expanded into a novel by Těsnohlídek. The story was used as the basis for Leoš Janáček"s opera The Cunning Little Vixen (Příhody Lišky Bystroušky, 1923).