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Čapková:  Z jabkenické myslivny




A new edition of Z jabkenické myslivny (From the Jabkenice Forest House) has just been published by the National Museum in Prague, featuring the visual concept and original illustrations by Paul Tuttas.

The memoirs of Běla Čapková, granddaughter of composer Bedřich Smetana, are accompanied by Paul Tuttas’ colour woodcuts depicting places in and around Jabkenice. His work also includes a detailed family tree and a portrait of the author.

To shape the visual direction of the book, Paul Tuttas visited the village of Jabkenice and the historic forest house, today part of the Bedřich Smetana Museum. Graphic designer Jan Stuchlík completed the publication design, integrating layers from woodcuts into the book’s opening and closing sections.


 Project:  Běla Čapková: Z jabkenické myslivny
  • Year: 2025
  • Language: Czech
  • Layout: Jan Stuchlík
  • Illustration and visual concept: Paul Tuttas
  • Publisher: Narodní Muzeum, Prague
  • Size: 20 × 12.5 cm
  • Pages: 200



Rilke: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge




During his studies at UMPRUM, Paul Tuttas undertook the re-design of Rainer Maria Rilke's novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge) in collaboration with Šimon Brzobohatý. Together, they conceptualized a fresh approach to the book, with prints by Paul Tuttas serving as visual interpretations of select text fragments, capturing objects, situations and locations.


Project: Rainer Maria Rilke:
Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
  • Year: 2023
  • Language: German
  • Layout: Šimon Brzobohatý
  • Illustration: Paul Tuttas
  • Publisher: none (student project)
  • Size: 18 × 12 cm
  • Pages: 216
  • Technique: digital print and screenprint



  • Literature Faces





The series of portraits emerged from a regular reading event held in the studio of Illustration and Graphics at UMPRUM. Prominent contemporary writers and poets from the Czech Republic like Petr Placák, Jan Novák, Martina Pachmanová, Vojtěch Mašek, Pavel Klusák and Petra Hůlová presented their work while the students drew their portraits. 

The Literature Faces by Paul Tuttas are linocuts that have been refined from drawings, aiming to capture a unique expression. All the while, they play with diverse structures, sizes, and contrasts that are so characteristic for the linocut technique.
  • Project: Literature Faces
  • Year: 2022
  • Publisher: none
  • Technique: linocut on paper

  • Anfänge / Počátky




The comic Anfänge / Počátky serves as an introduction to the early history of Pavlův Studenec (formerly Paulusbrunn), a Sudeten village located in present-day Czech Republic. It pictures both major and minor milestones in the development of this German-speaking community, spanning the period from approximately 1500 to 1800.

The comic by Paul Tuttas is the first of many inside the publication Spurensuche im Böhmischen Wald / Stopy minulosti Českého lesa (Tracing the Steps in the Bohemian Forest). Twelve contemporary artists, six German and six Czech, were invited to each illustrate a segment of the history of Paulusbrunn, which was destroyed after World War Two.
    Project: Anfänge / Počátky
    Year: 2022
    Published in: Spurensuche im Böhmischen Wald / Stopy minulosti Českého lesa
    Publisher: Via Carolina — Goldene Straße e. V.
    Size: two A4 pages
    Technique: linocut