This post comes courtesy of art historian calypsospots, who educates the masses with her formidable Czech art archive. More images by Hoffmeister (1902–73) can be seen in a set devoted to the artist.

Adolf Hoffmeister, The Strange World of Max Ernst, 1960, collage

Adolf Hoffmeister, The City of Lost Time, 1964, collage

Adolf Hoffmeister, In the Pisces Constellation, 1963, collage

Adolf Hoffmeister, Abkhazian Viticultural Landscape on the Shore (from the cycle Typographic Landscapes from the Caucasus), 1959, Newspaper collage, india ink, paper

Adolf Hoffmeister, Thrilling Still Life with Time, 1968, collage

Adolf Hoffmeister, The Internal Political Struggle of the Smoothing Irons against the cockerels, 1968, collage

Adolf Hoffmeister, Jewish Cemetery in Prague I, 1966, india ink, collage

Adolf Hoffmeister, Toyen. Rozpravy Aventina 5, no. 23, 5 March 1930, cover

Adolf Hoffmeister, costumes for Nevesta (Osvobozene divadlo, 1927)

Adolf Hoffmeister, The Cafe Affair

Adolf Hoffmeister, The Professional Beauty of Jean Cocteau, 1930, india ink, paper

It's kind of hilarious how much the Surrealists hated Cocteau.

Adolf Hoffmeister, Exhibition of Cartoons, 1929