Jan Marcin Szancer (1902-1973)
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- Name (English)
- Jan Marcin Szancer
- Short name
- Jan Marcin Szancer
- Year of birth
- 1902
- Year of death
- 1973
- Short Description
- "Jan Marcin Szancer (12 November 1902 – 21 March 1973) was a Polish illustrator, scenographer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
Szancer was born into a Jewish family in Kraków. He studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, and later in France and Italy.
He was a friend of Jan Brzechwa many of whose poems he illustrated.
Szancer illustrated over 200 books, including Henryk Sienkiewicz´s Trilogy, Adam Mickiewicz´s Pan Tadeusz and Brzechwa´s Pan Kleks series. Beginning in May 1945, he was the editor and cover-illustrator of the children´s magazine Świerszczyk. He was the first (post World War II) artistic director for Telewizja Polska, the Polish broadcasting organization." - (en.wikipedia.org 23.11.2019) - Entity Encoding
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