Title: Willkommen in Warszawa (Welcome to Warsaw)
Author: Tadeusz Jodłowski
Item description:
Notes: Poster issued in various language versions. Rare poster.
About the author: Tadeusz Jodłowski (13.06.1925 Piekary Śląskie - 31.10.2015 Warsaw) applied graphic artist (publishing and advertising graphics), poster designer, stage designer. During the occupation, a student at the School of Art Industry in Cracow, studied from 1945 to 1948 at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts (WSSP) in Cracow, graduation in 1948, diploma in 1951 with distinction at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Cracow in the field of applied graphics and posters under Professor Jerzy Karolak, simultaneously studied scenography there, lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Cracow (1948-1954), then at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Warsaw (in the atelier of Henryk Tomaszewski), later a professor at the Academy. Cooperation with numerous publishing houses including the Artistic and Graphic Publishing House (WAG) in 1955-1977 and the Foreign Trade Publishing House (WHZ). Numerous solo exhibitions, with a monographic exhibition at the Wilanów Poster Museum in 2010. Numerous awards including: T. Trepkowski Award 1959; 3rd prize 1st National Poster Biennale Katowice 1965. Author of more than 200 posters on various subjects including propaganda posters, circus posters, theater posters, opera posters, exhibition posters, sports posters, music posters and relatively few movie posters (at least 10); see Tadeusz Jodłowski 2011.
Additional information:
Condition:
Item in quite nice condition, slightly damaged poster margins with tears and a small loss in the upper right corner, while the corners have traces of adhesive tape.
Grading of state of preservation:
- perfect condition: (6) no defects, no signs of use, like new
- very nice: almost perfect condition (+5), very slight defects, almost like new (unused)
- nice: very good condition (5), very slight, basically insignificant defects
- quite nice: condition - very good (-5), insignificant, insignificant defects
- more than good: condition between very good and good (4/5), quite insignificant, not very significant defects
- at least good: condition at least good (+4), not very significant defects
- good: condition of good (4), fairly significant defects
- less than good: condition -good (-4), significant defects
- more than sufficient: condition between good and sufficient (3/4), very significant defects
- at least sufficient: condition at least sufficient (+3), fairly poor condition, extremely significant defects, almost destructive
- Sufficient: sufficient condition (3), poor condition, major defects in the card, basically destruct
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