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{{Short description|Polish graphic designer and cartoonist (1928–2001)}}

==Biography==

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*1928 Born in [[Bialystok]] [[Poland]]

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*Graduate of Architecture Department of [[Warsaw Polytechnic]]

| name = Jan Lenica

*[[Poster]] [[illustrator]] and a collaborator on the early animation films of [[Walerian Borowczyk]]

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*1963 - 1986 Lived and worked in [[France]]

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*1987 Living and working in [[Berlin]] ([[Germany]])

| caption = Lenica in 1967

*Professor of graphic, poster, animated cartoon for many years at german high schools

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|1|4|df=y}}

*2001 Passed away

| birth_place = [[Poznań]], Poland

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|10|5|1928|1|4|df=y}}

| death_place = [[Berlin]], Germany

| alma_mater = [[Warsaw University of Technology|Warsaw Polytechnic]]

| other_names =

| known_for = Poster design

| occupation = Graphic designer<br />Cartoonist

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

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 [[Cutout animation|cut-out]] [[stop motion]] animation in his numerous films, which included two [[feature film|features]]: ''Adam 2'' (1968) and ''[[Ubu et la grande gidouille]]'' (1976, but released in France only in 1979).

==Major awards==

*1960 - Nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for ''[[Dom (film)|Dom]]''. Shared with Polish [[Walerian Borowczyk]]

*1961 - ToulouzeToulouse-Lautrec Grand Prix, Versailles (France)

*1962 - 1st and 3rd prizes, International Film Poster Exhibition, Karlove Vary (Czech Rebublic)

*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 RebublicRepublic)

*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 CheretChéret (France)

*1987 - Graphics award, [[Bologna Children's Book Fair|Children Book Fair]], Bologna (Italy)

*1999 - Dragon of Dragons Honorary Awards in Cracow Film Festival (Poland)

==Directions==

==Other Polish graphic designers==

Jan Lenica was the director of:

*[[Bruno Oldani]]

*1957 - ''Nagrodzone uczucia'' (''Love Requited'')

*[[Franciszek Starwieyski]]

*1957 - ''Był sobie raz...'' (''[[Once Upon a Time...]]'')

*[[Henryk Tamaszewski]]

*1958 - ''[[Dom (film)|Dom]]'' (''House'')

*[[Jan Mlodozeniec]]

*1961 - ''[[JanItalia Sawka'61]]''

*1961 - ''Nowy Janko Muzykant''

*[[Mieszyslaw Wasilewski]]

*1963 - ''{{Ill|Labirynt (film)|it|3=Labirynt|lt=Labirynt}}''

*[[Roman Cieslewicz]]

*1965 - ''La Femme Fleur''

*[[Stasys Eidrigevicivs]]

*1965 - ''[[A (1965 film)|A]]''

*[[Tadeusz Piechura]]

*1965 - [[Rhinoceros (play)|''Rhinoceros'']]

*[[Wieslaw Rosocha]]

*1970 - ''Adam 2''

*[[Wieslaw Walkuski]]

*1987 - ''[[Ubu et la Grande Gidouille]]''

*[[Wiktor Sadowski]]

*2001 - ''Wyspa R.O.''

==See also==

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*[[Graphic design]]

==References==

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Kempa, Karolina (2018), Polnische Kulturplakate im Sozialismus. Eine kunstsoziologische Untersuchung zur (Be-)Deutung des Werkes von Jan Lenica und Franciszek Starowieyski, Wiesbaden: Springer, {{ISBN|978-3658188542}}

==External links==

[[Category:1928 births|Lenica ,Jan]]

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[[Category:2001 deaths|Lenica, Jan]]

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130825064459/http://www.culture.pl/web/english/resources-visual-arts-full-page/-/eo_event_asset_publisher/eAN5/content/jan-lenica Jan Lenica biography and filmography] at culture.pl

[[Category:Graphic designers|Lenica, Jan]]

*[http://cinema.encyclopedie.personnalites.bifi.fr/index.php?pk=8561 Jan Lenica filmography] (in French, but more accurate than IMDB)

[[Category:Polish artists|Lenica, Jan]]

*{{IMDb name|id=0501905|name=Jan Lenica}}

*[http://www.pigasus-gallery.de/lenica-poster.php Jan Lenica Posters]

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060227025441/http://www.iotacenter.org/program/publication/moritz/moritz17 Animation in the Post-Industrial Era] (mentions Jan Lenica's works)

*[https://www.contemporaryposters.com/category.php?artist=Lenica,%20Jan Jan Lenica's Posters at ContemporaryPosters.com]

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==Other [[Category:Polish graphic designers==]]

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