Jules Engel
'Jules Engel'
Courtesy of Jules Engel Archives
Jules Engel was born in Budapest in 1909, emigrating with his parents to the United States, Illinois, in 1935. After moving to Los Angeles to study at the Chouinard Art Institute in 1937, he began working for Walt Disney. Throughout his career he worked on Fantasia and Bambi, created the characters Gerald McBoing Boing and Mr Magoo and was nominated for an Oscar for his animated film Icarus Montgolfier Wright. Engel was a founding member of the United Productions of America (UPA) animation studio.
Engel was also accomplished in painting and printmaking. In 1966 he worked at Gemini Ltd on the lithographic series New York, New York. Through the use of repeated line and muted colour the works in this series create a sense of upward motion that recalls the vertiginous feeling of staring up at a row of skyscrapers.
Emilie Owens
Works in the Kenneth E. Tyler Collection
Chronology
1909 Born in Budapest, Hungary
1935 Emigrates with parents to Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
1937 Moves to Los Angeles, Studies at the Chouinard Art Institute
1938 Creates Chinese and Russian dances in Fantasia, animated film at Walt Disney Studios, Los Angeles
1943-45 Serves in the United States Air Force First Motion Picture Unit
1945 Founding member of the United Productions of America (UPA) animation studio
1950 Included in exhibition, American Abstract and Surrealist Art, at Chicago Art Institute, Illinois. Receives Purchase Prize, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
1951 Receives Purchase Prize, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco. Receives Purchase Prize, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
1952-60 Exhibits paintings and drawings at Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles
1952 Included in exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959 Helps establish Format Films; produces Icarus Montgolfier Wright, scripted by Ray Bradbury; nominated for Academy Award
1960 Receives Tamarind Lithography Fellowship, Los Angeles. Receives Oscar nomination for his work on the film Icarus Montgolfier Wright
1962 Travels to Paris, France, to direct animated film, The World of Sine, which won the La Bell Qualité Award
1965 Receives the Prix Jean Vigo Award for live action film, Coaraze. Produces, New York, New York, series of lithographs at Gemini GEL, Los Angeles
1967 Solo exhibition, Sculptures, at Downey Museum, Downey, California
1971 Founding director of the Experimental Animation Department, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, where he taught in the department until his death
1985 Included in exhibition at Tamarind-Grunwald Center for Graphics Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
1990 Exhibits paintings and drawings at the Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles
1992 Receives the Norman Mclaren Heritage Award, Canada
1994 Receives Lifetime Achievement Award, Cardiff International Film Festival, Wales
2001 Title of Institute Fellow conferred by the California Institute of the Arts
2003 Receives Lifetime Achievement Award, Cartoons on the Bay, Positano, Italy Jules Engel died in Simi Valley, California
2003 Jules Engel dies in Simi Valley, California
Barbara Delano © Tyler Graphics Ltd., revised Emilie Owens, 2007
This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibitions held within the artist's own lifetime.
Further Reading
NATIONAL GALLERY PUBLICATIONS
- Workshop: The Kenneth Tyler Collection, Jane Kinsman (ed.), 2015
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