Jan Lenica, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jan Lenica

Polish artist

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1928

Place of Birth: Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 05-Oct-2001

Profession: animator, graphic designer, poster artist, painter, university teacher, postage stamp designer, film director

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Jan Lenica (4 January 1928, Poznan, 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 of graphic, poster, animated cartoon for many years at German high schools and the first professor of the animation class at the University of Kassel, Germany, in 1979.
He used cut-out stop motion animation in his numerous films, which included two features: Adam 2 (1968) and Ubu et la grande gidouille (1976, but released in France only in 1979).