Raoul Servais (1 May 1928 – 17 March 2023) was a Belgian filmmaker, animator and comics artist.[1] He was born in Ostend, Belgium, and is a fundamental figure of the Belgian animation scene, as well as the founder of the animation faculty of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK).[2]
In total, Servais won about 60 film prizes. Homages with retrospectives were organized in Paris, Madrid, Istanbul, Montreal, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro and St Petersburg.[5]
Servais died at his home in Leffinge on 17 March 2023, at the age of 94.[6]
^Lenburg, Jeff (2006). "Servais, Raoul". Who's Who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film & Television's Award-Winning and Legendary Animators. New York: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books. pp. 314–316. ISBN978-1-55783-671-7.
^Who's who in Animated Cartoons 155783671X Jeff Lenburg - 2006 "at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, with plans to complete a film he had begun three years earlier, Harbour Lights (1960)."
^Memo from Belgium - Issues 181–184; Issue 1979 - Page 9
1979 -Industrial and commercial cartoons appeared on the silver screen, and young artists emerged to open up new horizons in form as well as content. Not for nothing the Servais film "Harbour Lights" came as a revelation to the 1960 National Film ..
Moins, Philippe; Corbet, Maurice (2013). Raoul Servais. Voyage en servaisgraphie. Les Animés (in French). Montreuil and Annecy: Éditions de l'Oeil and Communauté de l'Agglomération d'Annecy. ISBN978-2-35137-144-2.
Rosignoli, Manuela (2006). "Attraverso lo specchio" [Through the mirror]. In Bendazzi, Giannalberto; Scrimitore, Raffaella (eds.). Il cinema d'animazione e la nuova critica [Animated cinema and the new criticism]. Tra spettacolo e drammaturgia (in Italian). Milan: CUEM. pp. 63–72. ISBN978-88-6001-077-3.
Swinnen, Johan; Deneulin, Luc (2008). Raoul Servais: The Wizard of Ostend: Commitment – Challenge – Recognition. Brussels: ASP. ISBN978-90-5487-480-5.
