Jan Lenica

Jan Lenica
Lenica in 1967
Born(1928-01-04)4 January 1928
Poznań, Poland
Died5 October 2001(2001-10-05) (aged 73)
Berlin, Germany
EducationWarsaw Polytechnic
OccupationsGraphic designer
Cartoonist
Known forPoster design
Spouse(s)Teresa Byszewska
Merja Alanen
ChildrenAnneli
Maia

Jan Lenica (January 4, 1928 – October 5, 2001) was a Polish graphic designer and cartoonist.

Biography

A graduate of the Architecture Department of Warsaw Polytechnic, Lenica became a poster illustrator and a collaborator on the early animation films of Walerian Borowczyk. From 1963 to 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: Adam 2 (1968) and Ubu et la grande gidouille (1976, but released in France only in 1979).

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