Władysław Nehrebecki
Polish artist
Władysław Nehrebecki (14 June 1923, Borysław, Poland (now Boryslav, Ukraine) – 28 December 1978, Katowice) was a Polish animator and cartoon director. He is best known as the creator of the animated characters Bolek and Lolek. Bolek and Lolek are Władysław Nehrebecki's sons, and Lolek (in real life Roman Nehrebecki) is one of the owners of copyright and he recreated the cartoon series in a comic book Bolek's and Lolek's Cousins' Adventures (Przygody kuzynów Bolka i Lolka). Only one comic book was created and was released in August 2002.
Biography
Władysław Nehrebecki was born on June 14, 1923 in Borysław, the son of Józef and Helena née Dudziak. At the age of six, he was sent to the Institute for Orphans and the Poor of Count Stanisław Skarbek's Foundation in Drohowyż. He spent 10 years there. After returning from the Institute, he settled with his family in Drohobycz, where he began his education at the Secondary Technical School of the Society of the Secondary Technical School. After the German attack on the Soviet Union, in 1941 he was deported to Germany. He worked in the extraction of crude oil for Wintershall AG in the small town of Nienhagen as a forced laborer.
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