Jan Lenica
Jan Lenica (born January 4, 1928 in Poznań , † October 5, 2001 in Berlin ) was a Polish graphic and postage stamp artist , also known internationally for his poster art .
Life
Jan Lenica studied architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology . After graduating, however, he became a graphic designer and one of the most famous poster artists in Poland. Together with Walerian Borowczyk he worked on his early animated films. In 1963 he went to France and lived there until 1986. In 1964, his works were shown at the documenta III in Kassel in the graphics department . From 1979 to 1985 he was professor for animation film at the Kassel Art College . He was a member of the Kassel School of Poster Art, Book and Magazine Graphics . Lenica was the first professor of this focus, founded in 1979. In 1986 he went to Berlin and was professor at the Berlin University of the Arts until 1994 . He used the technique of cut-out animation in his numerous films, including two feature-length works : Adam 2 (1968) and Ubu et la grande gidouille (1976, but did not appear in France until 1979).
Postage stamps
He worked as a stamp artist for the Deutsche Bundespost and Deutsche Post AG.
- Postage stamp year 1986 of the German Federal Post Office
- Postage stamps issued in 1997 from the Federal Republic of Germany
Awards
- 1960 - nominated for the British Film Academy Award for Dom , along with Poland Walerian Borowczyk
- 1961 - Toulouse-Lautrec Grand Prix, Versailles (France)
- 1961 - Golden Dragon for Nowy Janko Muzykant next to Maly Western , in Krakow (Poland)
- 1962 - 1st and 3rd place, International Film Poster Exhibition, Karlove Vary (Czechoslovakia)
- 1963 - Annecy International Animated Film Festival / FIPRESCI Prize for Labirynt
- 1964 - Honorable Mention for The Rhinos at the 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 Cheret (France)
- 1987 - Bologna Ragazzi Award as special mention for The Colorful Bird , Bologna International Children's Book Fair (Italy)
- 1999 - Dragon of Dragons Honorary Awards of the Krakow Film Festival (Poland)
Director
Jan Lenica is the director of:
- 1957 - Nagrodzone Uczucia
- 1957 - Byl Sobie Raz
- 1958 - Cathedral (film)
- 1961 - Italia '61
- 1961 - Nowy Janko Muzykant
- 1963 - Labirynt (Labyrinth)
- 1965 - La Femme Fleur
- 1965 - A
- 1968 - Adam 2
- 1987 - Ubu et la Grande Gidouille
- 2001 - Wyspa RO
Exhibitions
- 1982: KasselerKunstVerein , Kassel
Literature and Sources
- documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964.
- Alain Weill: Encyclopédie de l'affiche . Editions Hazan, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-7541-0582-8 , pp. 246-247, 306-307 m. Fig.
- Karolina Kempa: Polish Culture Posters in Socialism. An art-sociological study on the (meaning) interpretation of the work of Jan Lenica and Franciszek Starowieyski. Wiesbaden 2018.
- Literature by and about Jan Lenica in the catalog of the German National Library
Web links
- Biography and filmography at culture.pl
- Posters by Jan Lenica
- Filmography (French, but more precise than IMDB)
- Jan Lenica in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Materials by and about Jan Lenica in the documenta archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Animated in Kassel , kunsthochschule-kassel.de, accessed on March 16, 2014
- ↑ Jan Lenica , culture.pl, accessed on March 16, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lenica, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poznań |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 2001 |
| Place of death | Berlin |