Jan Lenica’s Posters

Jan Lenica (January 4^th 1928, Poznań, Poland – October 5^th 2001, Berlin) was a Polish graphic designer and cartoonist. Graduate of the Architecture Faculty at the Warsaw Polytechnic, Lenica was specialized in poster, graphic design, book illustration, stage design and from 1957 on he became a collaborator on the early animation films of his compatriot and film director, Walerian Borowczyk. Author of the term Polish School of Poster, he lectured at the Harvard University in 1974 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin from 1986 until 1994. (mais…)

Wiktor Sadowski’s Illustrations

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A fine representative of the great Polish poster tradition, Wiktor Sadowski, was born in Olendry, in 1956. Twenty five years later, in 1981, he graduated at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and obtained his diploma under the supervision of professor Henryk Tomaszewski. Specialised in poster, painting and book illustration, Sadowski’s work clearly manifests his tremendous artistry and skill. (mais…)

Wiktor Sadowski’s Posters

A fine representative of the great Polish poster tradition, Wiktor Sadowski, was born in Olendry, in 1956. Twenty five years later, in 1981, he graduated at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and obtained his diploma under the supervision of professor Henryk Tomaszewski. Specialised in poster, painting and book illustration, Sadowski’s work clearly manifests his tremendous artistry and skill. (mais…)

Eryk Lipiński’s Posters

During the Second World War, Eryk Lipiński (July 12^th 1908 – September 27^th 1991) was one of the artists working with the Polish resistance and, involved in production of false documents, he was arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in the infamous Pawiak prison, in Mokotów prison and in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Born in Kraków, he was a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied from 1933 to 1939. Cofounder – with Zbigniew Mitzner – and chief editor for several years of the Polish satirical weekly magazine Szpilki (1935), Lipiński contributed to many other periodicals and newspapers as a caricaturist and essayist. He has also written plays and sketches for cabarets, as well as written books on related subjects. (mais…)

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The Ostengruppe is a design lab, founded in 2002, composed of graphic artists that have experienced the collapse of the communist regime and the subsequent transition to an open world, full of contrasts, opinions and cultural interchange. Eclectic and eye-catching, the works not only unveil historical influences of Russian Constructivism and Futurism, they also manifest the open-minded character of a group that knows how to take advantage of globalization and today’s universality. Acting mainly in the field of cultural production, the Ostengruppe puts aside technical virtuosity and over-refinement, to make use of a successful interplay between experimentation/spontaneity and intelligence/repertory. (mais…)

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The Ostengruppe is a design lab, founded in 2002, composed of graphic artists that have experienced the collapse of the communist regime and the subsequent transition to an open world, full of contrasts, opinions and cultural interchange. Eclectic and eye-catching, the works not only unveil historical influences of Russian Constructivism and Futurism, they also manifest the open-minded character of a group that knows how to take advantage of globalization and today’s universality. Acting mainly in the field of cultural production, the Ostengruppe puts aside technical virtuosity and over-refinement, to make use of a successful interplay between experimentation/spontaneity and intelligence/repertory. (mais…)

Henryk Tomaszewski – The free-thinking master who influenced a generation.

Born in Warsaw, to a family of musicians, Henryk Tomaszewski somewhat disappointed his parents and relatives when he, a gifted violinist, decided to study art at the local Academy of Fine Arts rather than attend the conservatoire. Although he trained as a painter at the academy (1934-39, class of professor Mieczysław Kotarbiński), Tomaszewski found his way to self-expression in poster design. Recently graduated, he worked as a cartoonist for numerous satirical magazines and the austerity of the war years taught him to create with limited means, which exercised and “maximized” his already fabulous imagination. (mais…)