Nationality Polish Parents Alfred Lenica Role Graphic designer | Name Jan Lenica Known for Poster design Siblings Danuta Konwicka | |
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Born 4 January 1928 ( 1928-01-04 ) Poznan, Poland Occupation Graphic designerCartoonist Died October 5, 2001, Berlin, Germany Nieces Maria Konwicka, Anna Konwicka Movies Labyrinth, Ubu et la Grande Gidouille, House, Nowy Janko muzykant, Sztandar Mlodych Similar People Walerian Borowczyk, Alfred Lenica, Wojciech Zamecznik, Danuta Konwicka, Ligia Branice |
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Jan Lenica (4 January 1928, Poznań, Poland - 5 October 2001, Berlin) was a Polish graphic designer and cartoonist.
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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 - 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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