Products description
Kulisiewicz, Tadeusz
born 1899 in POL - Kalisz, died 1988 in Warschau
Unter den Linden, Berlin
poster for Exhibition of Polish Graphic Art / Ausstellung polnischer Graphik
motif: mother
1947
colour offset
59 cm x 41 cm
poster design: Schwabe
print: Roman Greulich, Berlin
production: Karl Hülste, Berlin
slight damages at the borders, tears, small paper losses, slight creases
order no. 26019
You can read in the small exhibition catalogue translated in five (!) languages (pol., eng., russ., french, germ.) about the aim of this exhibition:
"This first attempt of democratic Poland in exhibiting in Germany after the end of the war the works of Polish creative art aims at acquatinting the German population - for whom Polish art actually remains something exotic - with the principal representatives of Polish graphic art and with their works of art." (p.8)
About the character of the Polish graphic art:
"By its ties to indigenous subjects, landscape, architecture, and to the people itself, the Polish graphic art shows typically national features. An inexhaustible source of inspiration is the popular art..." (p.8)
Lit.:
Presse- und Informationsabteilung der polnischen Militärmission in Berlin (ed.): Ausstellung polnischer Graphik, Berlin, Unter den Linden, 1947, p.34, no.53
