Borivoj Dovniković (12 December 1930 – 8 February 2022) was a Croatian film director, animator, and caricaturist. He was a prominent member of the

Zagreb school of animated films Zagreb school of animated films is a style of animation originating from Zagreb and Croatia, most notably Zagreb Film. It is represented by authors like Nikola Kostelac, Vatroslav Mimica, Dušan Vukotić and Vladimir Kristl. The term was coined b ...

style.

Biography

Dovniković was born in

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, on 12 December 1930. During the

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and the existence of the

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Borivoj and his father escaped to

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. In 1949, he arrived in

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where he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts and started to work as a caricaturist and illustrator in newspapers. Subsequently, he got a job at a local newspaper called Kerempuh in 1950. He participated in the making of the first Croatian animated art film Veliki Miting (The Great Meeting) and, in 1957, he joins the Zagreb Film company, from where he created and worked on animated shorts and movies. This led to the creation of Lutkica (The Doll) in 1961, his first fully own creation. From 1977 to 1982 he was a member of the International Animated Film Association and was a board member of Animafest Zagreb festival. Between 1994 and 2022 Dovniković wrote a comic the "Čipko and Grampa Filip" for youth magazine Bijela pčela published in

Rijeka Rijeka ( , , ; also known as Fiume hu, Fiume, it, Fiume ; local Chakavian: ''Reka''; german: Sankt Veit am Flaum; sl, Reka) is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia (after Zagreb and Split). It is located in Primor ...

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. Dovniković died in

on 8 February 2022, at the age of 91.

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Borivoj Dovniković
on Proleksis Encyclopedia

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