Borivoj Dovniković

{{Infobox person

| name = Borivoj Dovniković

| image = Borivoj Dovniković Bordo 2017.jpg

| caption = Dovniković in 2017

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|12|12||df=y}}

| birth_place = Osijek, Yugoslavia (present-day Croatia)

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|2|8|1930|12|12|df=yes}}

| death_place = Zagreb, Croatia

| othername =

| occupation = Film director, animator

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Borivoj Dovniković (12 December 1930 – 8 February 2022) was a Croatian film director, animator, comic artist {{cite web | url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bordo.htm | title=Bordo }} and caricaturist.{{cite web|url=https://www.jutarnji.hr/kultura/film-i-tv/jedan-od-zacetnika-profesora-baltazara-nagradu-za-zivotno-djelo-27.-animafesta-primit-ce-borivoj-dovnikovic-bordo/5269767/|title=JEDAN OD ZAČETNIKA PROFESORA BALTAZARA Nagradu za životno djelo 27. Animafesta primit će Borivoj Dovniković - Bordo|date=16 November 2016}} He was a prominent member of the Zagreb school of animated films style.

Biography

Dovniković was born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, on 12 December 1930.{{cite book |author= Ninoslav Kopač |date=2012|title=Svjedok histerije |publisher=Serb Democratic Forum |place=Zagreb |page=47 |isbn=978-953-57313-2-0}} During the World War II in Yugoslavia and the existence of the Independent State of Croatia Borivoj and his father escaped to Serbia. 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/scena/kultura/clanak/id/232173/borivoj-dovnikovic-bordo-digitalna-animacija-presudila-je-zagrebackoj-skoli-crtanog-filma|title=Digitalna animacija presudila je Zagrebačkoj školi crtanog filma|date=17 April 2014}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.tportal.hr/kultura/clanak/upoznajte-najstarijeg-aktivnog-crtaca-stripa-na-svijetu-20150826|title=Upoznajte najstarijeg aktivnog crtača stripa na svijetu}} This led to the creation of Lutkica (The Doll) in 1961, his first fully own creation. From 1977 to 1982 he was a member of the International Animated Film Association and was a board member of Animafest Zagreb festival. Between 1994 and 2022 Dovniković wrote a comic the "Čipko and Grampa Filip" for youth magazine Bijela pčela published in Rijeka by SKD Prosvjeta.{{cite journal |last=n. |first=a. |date=February 2022 |title=Zbogom, Bordo |trans-title=Goodbye, Bordo |language=sh |journal=Bijela pčela: List za svu djecu |issue=274 |pages=40–41 |location=Rijeka |publisher=SKD Prosvjeta }}

Dovniković died in Zagreb on 8 February 2022, at the age of 91.{{cite news|date=8 February 2022 |author=n.a. |title=In memoriam: Borivoj Dovniković Bordo (1930-2022) |publisher=Novosti (Croatia) |url=https://www.portalnovosti.com/in-memoriam-borivoj-dovnikovic-bordo-1930-2022 |access-date=8 February 2022}} In 2024, the City Assembly of Zagreb named a park in Trešnjevka-north after Borivoj Dovniković.{{cite web|date=2024-03-22 |title=Glumice umjesto ustaša |language=sh |url=https://www.portalnovosti.com/glumice-umjesto-ustasa |publisher=Novosti (Croatia) |location=Zagreb |issn=1845-8955 |accessdate=2024-03-22 |quote=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.}}

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External links

[http://proleksis.lzmk.hr/18386/ Borivoj Dovniković] on Proleksis Encyclopedia
[https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bordo.htm Lambiek Comiclopedia biography.]

Borivoj Dovniković

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