Borivoj Dovniković (12 December 1930 – 8 February 2022) was a Croatian film director, animator, comic artist [1] and caricaturist.[2] He was a prominent member of the Zagreb school of animated films style.[3]
Borivoj Dovniković | |
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 Dovniković in 2017 | |
| Born | 12 December 1930 |
| Died | 8 February 2022 (aged 91) Zagreb, Croatia |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, animator |
Biography
editDovniković was born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, on 12 December 1930.[4] During the World War II in Yugoslavia and the existence of the Independent State of Croatia Borivoj and his father escaped to Serbia.[3] In 1949, he arrived in Zagreb where he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts and started to work as a caricaturist and illustrator in newspapers. Subsequently, he got a job at a local newspaper called Kerempuh in 1950.[5] He participated in the making of the first Croatian animated art film Veliki Miting (The Great Meeting) and, in 1957, he joins the Zagreb Film company, from where he created and worked on animated shorts and movies.[6] This led to the creation of Lutkica (The Doll) in 1961, his first fully own creation.[4] From 1977 to 1982 he was a member of the International Animated Film Association and was a board member of Animafest Zagreb festival.[4] Between 1994 and 2022 Dovniković wrote a comic the "Čipko and Grampa Filip" for youth magazine Bijela pčela published in Rijeka by SKD Prosvjeta.[7]
Dovniković died in Zagreb on 8 February 2022, at the age of 91.[3] In 2024, the City Assembly of Zagreb named a park in Trešnjevka-north after Borivoj Dovniković.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Bordo".
- ^ "JEDAN OD ZAČETNIKA PROFESORA BALTAZARA Nagradu za životno djelo 27. Animafesta primit će Borivoj Dovniković - Bordo". 16 November 2016.
- ^ a b c n.a. (8 February 2022). "In memoriam: Borivoj Dovniković Bordo (1930-2022)". Novosti (Croatia). Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ^ a b c Ninoslav Kopač (2012). Svjedok histerije. Zagreb: Serb Democratic Forum. p. 47. ISBN 978-953-57313-2-0.
- ^ "Digitalna animacija presudila je Zagrebačkoj školi crtanog filma". 17 April 2014.
- ^ "Upoznajte najstarijeg aktivnog crtača stripa na svijetu".
- ^ n., a. (February 2022). "Zbogom, Bordo" [Goodbye, Bordo]. Bijela pčela: List za svu djecu (in Serbo-Croatian) (274). Rijeka: SKD Prosvjeta: 40–41.
- ^ "Glumice umjesto ustaša" (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Novosti (Croatia). 22 March 2024. ISSN 1845-8955. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
Gradska skupština prihvatila je i da se neimenovani park u Gradskoj četvrti Trešnjevka-sjever imenuje u spomen na velikana animiranog filma i karikaturista Borivoja Dovnikovića i dobiva ime Park Borivoja Dovnikovića.