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Jules Engel (Hungarian/American, 1915)
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Jules Engel
Red, Orange and Black Geometric 1969
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Biography |
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1909 |
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Born March 11, Budapest, Hungary |
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1922 |
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Moved to Oak park, IL |
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1937 |
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Moved to Hollywood, CA |
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1937 |
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Studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA |
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1938 - 1941 |
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Worked as an animator on the Walt Disney films "Fantasia" and "Bambi" |
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1942 - 1944 |
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Served in the First Motion Picture United, the first unit of the United States Military to be made up entirely of motion picture personnel, as an animator |
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1957 |
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Along with Her Kylnn was active as Format Films, producing "The Chipmunks," and other pgorams |
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1944 - 1959 |
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One of the founding member of the United Productions of America studio and worked as a background artist |
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1959 - 1962 |
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Launched Format Films with former UPA colleagues Herbert Klynn and Buddy Getzler |
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1962 |
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Moved to Paris, France |
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1970 |
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Became the founding director of the Abstract Experimental Animation on Film Department for the California Institute of the Arts |
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1970 |
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Returned to the U.S. and founded CalArts' Program in Experimental Animation |
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2003 |
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Died |
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Awards & Honors
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San Francisco Museum of Art, Puchase Prize, 1950 |
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San Francisco Museum of Art, Puchase Prize, 1951 |
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Los Angeles County Museum, Purchase Prize, 1951 |
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Caravan Gallery, New York, First Prize: Art Digest Award, 1951 |
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California Watercolor Society, Purchase Award, 1955 |
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California Watercolor Society, Purchase Award, 1956 |
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California State Fair, Prize Award, 1957 |
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French La Bell Qualite Award, 1962 |
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Prix Jean Vigo Award, 1965 |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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Jules Engel Centennial Celebration, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA |
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2007 |
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"Birth of the Cool," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA |
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2003 |
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"Films, Paintings, Drawings, Constructions and Lithographs," Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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2002 |
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"Flatline," Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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2001 |
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"Anything but Still," Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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2000 |
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"Pure de(Sign), Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA |
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1999 |
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"Spatial Concerns: A Retrospective," Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1997 |
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Donnell Media Center, New York, NY |
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1996 |
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"On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950," Archives of American Art, Jack Rutberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1994 |
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Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1992 |
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"American Cubism," Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY
"The Meadow," Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Merrill Lynch Corporation Gallery, Princeton, NJ |
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1990 |
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"Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists, 1920-1950," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
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1978 |
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"Film Als," Cologne, Stuttgart, Germany |
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1977 |
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Landfall Press, Chicago, IL |
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1976 |
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Montgomery Art Center, Claremont College, Claremont, CA |
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1975 |
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
Comsky Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA |
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1974 |
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California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA |
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1971 |
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Comsky Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA |
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1970 |
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY |
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1968 |
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Artist-in-Residency Exhibition, Ogden, Utah |
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1967 |
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Gemini GEL Graphics, Ltd, Los Angeles, CA
Syracuse University Galleries, Syracuse, NY
Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA |
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1966 |
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Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ruth White Gallery, New York, NY |
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1965 |
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"Contemporary Print Exhibition," The White House, Washington, DC |
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1964 |
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Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galleria Zero, Verona, Italy
Cornell University Galleries, Ithaca, NY |
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1963 |
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Contemporary masters," Kane Memorial, Providence, RI
"Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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1962 |
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Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX
Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
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1961 |
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"Annual," L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1960 |
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Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1959 |
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"Annual," L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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1958 |
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Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1956 |
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Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Annual," L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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1955 |
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"Pacific Coast Art: United States, Third Biennial," Sao Paolo, Brazil
"Fifteen American Painters," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
"Annual," L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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1954 |
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Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1953 |
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M.H. deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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1952 |
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"Whitney Annual," Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1951 |
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"Contemporary Painting in the United States," L.A. County Museum of Art
Denvery Museum of Art, Denver, CO
"Whitney Annual," Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY |
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1950 |
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"American Abstract and Surrealist Art," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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1949 |
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"California Centennials," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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1947 |
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American Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1945 |
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Frederick Kann Circle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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