William Timym
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William Timym, Template:Post-nominals (1902–1990) was an artist whose best known work is probably the Bleep and Booster cartoons for the BBC's Blue Peter.
Timym (pronounced Tim) was Austrian, grew up in Vienna and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He moved to England in 1938 because of the Nazi occupation of Austria and during the Second World War produced a number of works for the Ministry of Information.
He became a naturalised British citizen in April 1949.[1]
He was also a bronze sculptor and created many realistic (rather than stylised) wildlife sculptures. These include a statue of Blue Peter's dog Petra, a lion bust at Gloucester's Nature in Art museum, a lifesize Sumatran rhinoceros at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Canterbury, and a Template:Cvt elephant fountain at Saint Louis Zoo. Other cartoons he produced include Bengo the Boxer puppy and Wuff, Snuff and Tuff.[2]
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- 1920 births
- 1990 deaths
- Austrian illustrators
- Austrian male sculptors
- Austrian animators
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Saint Louis Zoo people
- 20th-century sculptors
- Austrian refugees
- Austrian emigrants to the United Kingdom
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