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Jules Engel (born March 11, 1909 in Budapest , † September 6, 2003 in Simi Valley , California ) was a Hungarian-American painter and animator who specialized in abstract animation.
Life
Engel was born in Budapest and moved to Oak Park , Illinois at the age of 13 . He attended high school and briefly studied at UCLA in 1937 before becoming a landscape artist. Engel then worked as a phase draftsman at Charles Mintz Studios and came to Disney Studios in January 1939 , where he animated various dance scenes in the feature- length film Fantasia (1940). Angel also animated scenes from the classic Bambi (1942), who was also involved in the coloring of the film. The Disney animators' strike ended Engel's time at Disney in 1941.
From 1942 to 1944, Engel was a member of the Hal Roach Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Corps and joined the innovative animation studio United Productions of America in 1944 . Engel was involved as a background artist in films such as Gerald McBoing-Boing and the Mister Magoo series. In 1959, Engels left UPA and founded the film studio Format Films with Herbert Klynn and Buddy Getzler , which produced the animated series The Alvin Show (1961–1962) and The Lone Ranger (1966–1969). Engel's own films were also released by Format Films, including the short animation film Icarus Montgolfier Wright (1962), an Oscar-nominated work. Engel was also active as a painter and exhibited his paintings for the first time at the Frederick Kahn Gallery in Los Angeles in 1945 through the mediation of Hazel Guggenheim.
In 1962 Engel went to Paris, worked on several animated films, but also worked as a set designer. He also turned to biographical work in France, which he continued back in the United States. In 1968, through Anaïs Nin , Engel came into contact with Herbert Blau , the first director of the California Institute of the Arts . At his suggestion, Engel founded CalArts' Experimental Animation Program in 1970, which he directed until 2001. His students included Henry Selick , Tim Burton , Stephen Hillenburg, and Glen Keane . In 2001, CalArts named Engel an Institute Fellow, an honor previously only given to two other people.
Engel died in 2003 after a short illness and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park . Stephen Hillenburg dedicated his film The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie to Engel in 2004 . The Jules Engel Preservation Project, founded in 2003, is dedicated to the preservation and maintenance of Engel's oeuvre.
Filmography
- As a director
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- As an animator
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Awards (selection)
- 1963: Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film for Icarus Montgolfier Wright
- 1966: "Lion of San Marco" plaque at the Venice International Film Festival for The Ivory Knife: Paul Jenkins at Work
- 1977: International Cannes Film Festival 1977 - in the competition for the Palme d'Or for the best short film for Rumble
- 1992: Golden Award from the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Awards
- 1992: Norman McLaren Heritage Award from ASIFA-Canada at the Ottawa International Animation Festival
- 1995: ASIFA Hollywood Winsor McCay Award at the Annie Awards
- 1998: "Friz" Lifetime Achievement in Animation at the Santa Clarita International Film Festival
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Charles Salomon: Jules Engel, 94; Innovator in animation art . Obituary in the Los Angeles Times , September 12, 2003 .
- ↑ See funeral speech for Jules Engel on awn.com
- ↑ See CalArts obituary for Jules Engel
- ↑ See centerforvisualmusic.org
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| SURNAME | Angel, Jules |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-American painter and animator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 2003 |
| Place of death | Simi Valley , California |