Jan Lenica

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Jan Lenica
Lenica in 1967
Born	(1928-01-04)4 January 1928 Poznań, Poland
Died	5 October 2001(2001-10-05) (aged 73) Berlin, Germany
Occupation(s)	Graphic designer Cartoonist
Known for	Poster design

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

(1976, but released in France only in 1979).

Major awards

• 1960 - Nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for Dom. 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 (House)
• 1961 -
  Italia '61
• 1961 - Nowy Janko Muzykant
• 1963 - Labirynt [it]
• 1965 - La Femme Fleur
• 1965 - A
• 1965 - Rhinoceros
• 1970 - Adam 2
• 1987 - Ubu et la Grande Gidouille
• 2001 - Wyspa R.O.

See also

• List of graphic designers
• List of Polish painters
• List of Polish graphic designers
• Graphic design

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 filmography at culture.pl
• Jan Lenica filmography (in French, but more accurate than IMDB)
• Jan Lenica at
  IMDb
• Jan Lenica Posters
• Animation in the Post-Industrial Era (mentions Jan Lenica's works)
• Jan Lenica's Posters at ContemporaryPosters.com