Jan Janczak

First name:

Jan

Last Name:

Janczak

Middle name:

January

Date of birth:

01-10-1938

Place of birth:

Środa Wielkopolska

Date of death:

01-12-2015

Place od death:

St. Gallen

Age:

Profession:

Professor, sculptor, Director, scriptwriter

Biography:

Jan January Janczak (1938) - graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, and has been a professor there since 1972. He is the author of the artwork, screenwriter or director of 22 animated and live-action films. One of them, "Illusion", received the Special Prize of the Cork IFF. He has been based in Switzerland since 1980. In December 2001, he created a group of sculptures that are located in Skulpturparken in front of the Konsthallen gallery in Landskrona.