Robert Lortac

Robert Lortac shortly Lortac , (born 19th November 1884 in Cherbourg , died 16th April 1973 in Paris ) had stage name of French animation designer, illustrator, cartoonist, comic cartoonist and lyricist, graphic artist, painter and writer Robert Collard .

Life

Robert Collard grew up in Paris from 1889 and studied drawing and painting around 1900 at the Académie Delécluse and with Fernand Cormon at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . He then worked for various Parisian newspapers and magazines. He made his first humorous (silent) film in 1914 under the stage name Lortac. Collard was drafted as a soldier and was wounded. From 1916 he produced cartoons in his own studio that advertised war bonds. He worked with the cartoonist Émile Cohl , among others . In 1917 he took part in an exhibition promoting the French war aims in the USA.

After the end of the war he produced commercials, documentaries and humorous cartoons in his studio. He sold the studio around 1936 and shifted to writing adventure, crime and science fiction novels. After the end of the Second World War he wrote scripts for other comic artists.

literature

Helmut Kronthaler: Lortac, Robert . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 85, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023190-8 , p. 335 f.
Valérie Vignaux : Marius O'Galop, Robert Lortac. Deux pionniers du cinéma d'animation français . Paris: Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma, 2009 ISBN 978-2-913758-60-5

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personal data
SURNAME	Lortac, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lortac; Collard, Robert (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French cartoonist and animator
DATE OF BIRTH	November 19, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cherbourg
DATE OF DEATH	April 16, 1973
Place of death	Paris