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

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.
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.
LabyrinthLabyrinth · 1963
Labyrinth
6.61963
MovieAnimation
A self-consciously Kafkaesque tale of a winged lonely man literally devoured by totalitarian rule.
AA · 1965
A
6.41965
MovieAnimation
A writer is persecuted by an enormous and abusive letter 'A'.
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.
Strip-TeaseStrip-Tease · 1957
Strip-Tease
1957
MovieAnimation
Borowczyk and Lenica are at their most expressive in this crude paper miniature.
New Janko the MusicianNew Janko the Musician · 1961
New Janko the Musician
3.71961
MovieAnimation
In the modern village of the future, everything is mechanized, but the dreams of the village musician remain the same. He wants to become an artist. Thanks to the fact that an Art Nouveau goddess gave him a helping hand, Janko Muzykant saves his life and escapes from the village on a Pegasus.
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.

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