Jan Lenica

• Name — Jan Lenica • Born — 4 January 1928 • Birthplace — Poznań, Poland • Died — 5 October 2001 • Place of death — Berlin, Germany • Education — Warsaw Polytechnic • Known for — Poster design • Occupation — Graphic designer Cartoonist • Spouse — Teresa Byszewska Merja Alanen • Children — Anneli Maia

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 to 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).

Jan Lenica was the director of: • 1957 - Nagrodzone uczucia (Love Requited) • 1957 - Był sobie raz... (Once Upon a Time...) • 1958 - Dom (House) • 1961 - Italia '61 • 1961 - Nowy Janko Muzykant • 1963 - Labirynt (film) • 1965 - La Femme Fleur • 1965 - A • 1965 - Rhinoceros • 1970 - Adam 2 • 1987 - Ubu et la Grande Gidouille • 2001 - Wyspa R.O.

Jan Lenica is recorded as poster artist, painter, graphic designer and animator. Career and activity. Lenica worked in visual arts, art criticism, animated film and comic. He was employed by Berlin University of the Arts. He worked at Poland.