William Timym

William Timym, MBE, (1920-1990) was an artist whose most well known work is probably the "Bleep and Booster" cartoons for the BBC's "Blue Peter".

Timym (pronounced Tim) was Austrian, grew up in Vienna and studied at the Vienna Academy of Art. He moved to England in 1938 because of the Nazi occupation of Austria.

He was also a bronze sculptor and created many realistic (rather than stylised) wildlife sculptures. These include a statue of Blue Peter's dog "Petra", a "lion bust" at Gloucester's Nature in Art museum, a lifesize "Sumatran white rhino" at Howlett Zoo in Canterbury and a 15 ft "elephant fountain" at Saint Louis Zoo [http://www.stlrac.org/Publicart.cfm?where=Forest+Park] . Other cartoons he produced include Bengo the Boxer puppy.

External links

*http://www.the-kennel-club.org.uk/gallery/artist55.shtml
*http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/other/bengo.htm