Jan Lenica

Jan Lenica 4 January 1928 Pozna? 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 cutout 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 He died on 5 October 2001 in Berlin Germany