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Jan Lenica

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Jan Lenica

Born January 4, 1928 · Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland

Died October 5, 2001 · aged 73

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 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…

Known For

Love RequitedLove Requited · 1958
Love Requited
★ 5.01958
MovieAnimation
About the work of the naive painter J. Plaskocinski. A playful tale about the requited love of a shy young man.
Monsieur TêteMonsieur Tête · 1959
Monsieur Tête
★ 5.91959
MovieAnimation
Monsieur Tête, an ordinary bureaucrat, rebels against the world and the ideas of the people around him. Because of his marginal behavior, his head is broken, like everyone else.
LabyrinthLabyrinth · 1963
Labyrinth
★ 6.61963
MovieAnimation
A self-consciously Kafkaesque tale of a winged lonely man literally devoured by totalitarian rule.
Banner of YouthBanner of Youth · 1957
Banner of Youth
★ 5.01957
MovieAnimation
A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its abstract elements painted directly onto film stock. An attempt at showing the complexity of the world in a capsule, the film reflects the new policy of the openness to the West during the Thaw of the late 1950s in Poland.
RhinocerosRhinoceros · 1964
Rhinoceros
★ 5.61964
MovieAnimation
Based on Eugene Ionesco’s play, this is an animated film warning that by conforming to patterns and living en masse, people will become rhinoceroses.
Strip-TeaseStrip-Tease · 1957
Strip-Tease
★ 5.01957
MovieAnimation
Borowczyk and Lenica are at their most expressive in this crude paper miniature.
AA · 1965
A
★ 6.41965
MovieAnimation
A writer is persecuted by an enormous and abusive letter 'A'.
Wyspa R.O.Wyspa R.O. · 2001
Wyspa R.O.
★ 7.52001
MovieDrama
"Wyspa R.O" is a highly personal story about freedom, fate and love as well as Lenica's personal creative testament. The allegorical story, full of symbols and the author's quotes, tells of a secret corner of the world which was once inhabited by convicts, where only one lonely guard remains. Lenica was one of the most important creators of Polish poster art and his films have been honored at many international festivals.

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