Jan Lenica (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
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, Lenica became a poster
illustrator
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and a collaborator on the early animation films of
Walerian Borowczyk. From 1963 – 1986 he lived and worked in France, while from 1987 he lived and worked in Berlin. 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-out stop motion animation in his numerous films, which included two
features
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: ''
Adam 2'' (1968) and ''
Ubu et la grande gidouille
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'' (1976, but released in France only in 1979).
Major awards
*1960 - Nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for ''
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''. Shared with Polish
Walerian Borowczyk
*1961 - Toulouse-Lautrec Grand Prix, Versailles (France)
*1961 - Golden Dragon for ''Nowy Janko Muzykant'' tied with ''Mały Western'', Cracow (Poland)
*1962 - 1st and 3rd prizes, International Film Poster Exhibition, Karlove Vary (Czech Republic)
*1963 - Annecy International Animated Film Festival / FIPRESCI Prize for
Labirynt
*1964 - Honorable Mention for ''
Die 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 Chéret (France)
*1987 - Graphics award,
Children Book Fair, Bologna (Italy)
*1999 - Dragon of Dragons Honorary Awards in Cracow Film Festival (Poland)
Directions
Jan Lenica was the director of:
*1957 - ''Nagrodzone uczucia'' (''
Love Requited'')
*1957 - ''Był sobie raz...'' (''
Once Upon a Time...'')
*1958 - ''
Dom Dom or DOM may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Dom (given name), including fictional characters
* Dom (surname)
* Dom La Nena (born 1989), stage name of Brazilian-born cellist, singer and songwriter Dominique Pinto
* Dom people, an et ...
'' (''House'')
*1961 - ''
Italia '61
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''
*1961 - ''
Nowy Janko Muzykant''
*1963 - ''
Labirynt''
*1965 - ''
La Femme Fleur''
*1965 - ''
A''
*1970 - ''
Adam 2''
*1987 - ''
Ubu et la Grande Gidouille
''Ubu and the Great Gidouille (Ubu et la Grande Gidouille)'' is a 1979 French animated film directed by Jan Lenica. It is based on Alfred Jarry
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''
*2001 - ''
Wyspa R.O.''
See also
*
List of graphic designers
This is a list of notable graphic designers.
A-C
* Reza Abedini
* Otl Aicher
* Alan Aldridge
* John Alvin
* Gail Anderson
* Jeff Arwadi
* Roberto Baldazzini
* Jan Balet
* Marian Bantjes
* Noma Bar
* Jonathan Barnbrook
* Saul Bass
* Herbe ...
*
List of Polish painters
*
List of Polish graphic designers
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Polish graphic designers
*Roman Cieślewicz
*Stasys Eidrigevicius
* Jan Lenica
* Jan Mlodozeniec
* Adam Niklewicz
*Wiesław Rosocha
*Wiktor Sadowski
* Jan Sawka
*Franciszek Starowieyski
* Piotr Szyhalski
* Henryk T ...
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Graphic design
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References
Kempa, Karolina (2018), Polnische Kulturplakate im Sozialismus. Eine kunstsoziologische Untersuchung zur (Be-)Deutung des Werkes von Jan Lenica und Franciszek Starowieyski, Wiesbaden: Springer,
External links
Jan Lenica biography and filmographyat culture.pl
Jan Lenica filmography(in French, but more accurate than IMDB)
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Jan Lenica PostersAnimation in the Post-Industrial Era
(mentions Jan Lenica's works)
Jan Lenica's Posters at ContemporaryPosters.com
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1928 births
2001 deaths
Artists from Poznań
People from Poznań Voivodeship (1921–1939)
Polish graphic designers
Polish poster artists
Polish animated film directors
German animated film directors
German graphic designers
German poster artists
Stop motion animators
Animation educators
Film people from Poznań