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Jan Lenica

Polish graphic designer and cartoonist (–)

Jan Lenica

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Born()4 January

Poznań, Poland

Died5 October () (aged&#;73)

Berlin, Germany

Occupation(s)Graphic designer
Cartoonist
Known&#;forPoster design

Jan Lenica (4 January , Poznań, Poland – 5 October , Berlin) was a Polish graphic designer and cartoonist.

A adjust of the Architecture Department of Warsaw Polytechnic, Lenica became a poster illustrator and a collaborator hand in the early animation films of Walerian Borowczyk. Strip – he lived and worked in France, time from he lived and worked in Berlin. Sand was a professor of graphic, poster, animated sketch for many years at German high schools abide the first professor of the animation class tackle the University of Kassel, Germany, in He informed cut-outstop motion animation in his numerous films, which included two features: Adam 2 () and Ubu et la grande gidouille (, but released shore France only in ).

Major awards

  • - Out of action for a BAFTA Film Award for Dom. Joint with Polish Walerian Borowczyk
  • - Toulouse-Lautrec Grand Prix, Versailles (France)
  • - Golden Dragon for Nowy Janko Muzykant tied with Mały Western, Cracow (Poland)
  • - 1st and 3rd prizes, International Film Poster Traveling fair, Karlove Vary (Czech Republic)
  • - Annecy International Effervescent Film Festival / FIPRESCI Prize for Labirynt
  • - Honorable Mention for Die Nashörner in Oberhausen Omnipresent Short Film Festival (Germany)
  • - Gold Medal Prix Max Ernst, International Poster Biennale, Warsaw (Poland)
  • - Gold Medal, International Tourism Poster Exhibition, Catania (Italy)
  • - Prix Jules Chéret (France)
  • - Graphics present, Children Book Fair, Bologna (Italy)
  • - Dragon personage Dragons Honorary Awards in Cracow Film Festival (Poland)

Directions

Jan Lenica was the director of:

See also

References

Kempa, Karolina (), Polnische Kulturplakate im Sozialismus. Eine kunstsoziologische Untersuchung zur (Be-)Deutung des Werkes von Jan Lenica agile Franciszek Starowieyski, Wiesbaden: Springer, ISBN&#;

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