- Jan Lenica
Jan Leniča (4 January 1928,
Poznań ,Poland - 5 October 2001,Berlin ) was a Polish graphic designer and cartoonist.A graduate of the Architecture Department of
Warsaw Polytechnic , Lenica became aposter illustrator and a collaborator on the early animation films ofWalerian Borowczyk . From 1963 - 1986 he lived and worked inFrance , while from 1987 he lived and worked inBerlin . He was a professor of graphic, poster, animated cartoon for many years at German high schools and the first professor of the animation class at the University of Kassel, Germany, in 1979. He used cut-outstop motion animation in his numerous films, which included two features: "Adam 2 " (1968) and "Ubu et la grande gidouille " (1976, but released in France only in 1979).Major awards
*1960 - BAFTA Film Award for Dom. Shared with Polish
Walerian Borowczyk
*1961 - Toulouse-Lautrec Grand Prix, Versailles (France)
*1961 - Golden Dragon forNowy Janko Muzykant tied withMaly Western , in Cracow (Poland)
*1962 - 1st and 3rd prizes, International Film Poster Exhibition, Karlove Vary (Czech Republic)
*1963 - Annecy International Animated Film Festival / FIPRESCI Prize forLabirynt
*1964 - Honorable Mention forDie Nashörner in Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (Germany)
*1966 - Gold Medal Prix Max Ernst, International Poster Biennale, Warsaw (Poland)
*1971 - Gold Medal, International Tourism Poster Exhibition, Catania (Italy)
*1985 - Prix Jules Cheret (France)
*1987 - Graphics award, Children Book Fair, Bologna (Italy)
*1999 - Dragon of Dragons Honorary Awards in Cracow Film Festival (Poland)Directions
Jan Leniča was the director of:
*1957 - Nagrodzone Uczucia (Love Requited )
*1957 - Byl Sobie Raz (Once There Was )
*1958 - Dom (House)
*1961 -Italia '61
*1961 -Nowy Janko Muzykant
*1963 -Labirynt
*1965 -La Femme Fleur
*1965 -A
*1970 -Adam 2
*1987 -Ubu et la Grande Gidouille
*2001 -Wyspa R.O. ee also
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List of graphic designers
*List of Polish painters
*List of Polish graphic designers
*Graphic design External links
* [http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_lenica_jan Jan Lenica biography and filmmography]
* [http://cinema.encyclopedie.personnalites.bifi.fr/index.php?pk=8561 Jan Lenica filmmography] (in French, but more accurate than IMDB)
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* [http://www.iotacenter.org/program/publication/moritz/moritz17 Animation in the Post-Industrial Era] (mentions Jan Lenica's works)
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