Roman Cieslewicz, Vintage Poster Bold Paris Berlin 1900-1930 Pompidou Center Polish Graphic Artist, 1978

Description

Roman Cieślewicz (born 1930 13 January in Lwów Poland now Lviv Ukraine - died 1996 21 January in Paris, France) … more Roman Cieślewicz (born 1930 13 January in Lwów Poland now Lviv Ukraine - died 1996 21 January in Paris, France) was a Polish (naturalized French) graphic artist and photographer.

From 1943 to 1946 he attended the School of Artistic Industry in Lvov and from 1947 to 1949 attended the Krakow's Fine Arts Lycee. He studied at Kraków Academy of Fine Arts from 1949 to 1955. He was artistic editor of "Ty i Ja" monthly (Warsaw) 1959-1962. In 1963 he moved to France and naturalized in 1971. He worked as art director of Vogue, Elle (1965-1969) and Mafia - advertising agency (1969-1972) and was artistic creator of Opus International (1967-1969), Kitsch (1970-1971) and Cnac-archives (1971-1974). Taught at the Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques (ESAG) in Paris. In 1976 he produced his "review of panic information" - "Kamikaze"/No. 1/ published by Christian Bourgois. Folon. In 1991 he produced "Kamikaze 2" with Agnes B. He took part in numerous group exhibitions of graphic, poster and photographic art and was a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale).
He designed a famous 1960s Polish Cyrk Circus Dog Poster as well as a Pop art superman cover for Opus magazine and a Charlie Chaplin poster for a Polish film festival.

Major awards
1964 - Grand Prix, International Exhibition of Film Posters in Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
1964 - Gold Medal, 1st Biennial of Industrial Forms in Ljubljana (Yugoslavia)
1972 - Gold Medal, 4th International Biennial of Posters in Warsaw (Poland)
1979 - Grand Prix for posters in Paris (France)
1984 - Bronze Medal, International Biennial of Posters
1990 - Grand Prix of "Art Graphique" (France)
1991 - Excellence Prize at Biennial of Graphic in Zagreb (Yugoslavia)
1992 - President Price, Biennial of Applied Graphic in Brno (Slovakia)
1993 – Second prize, Poster Biennale Lahti (Finland)

He was included in the MoMA NY show of Polish posters (along with Jerzy Czerniawski, Wiktor Gorka, Mieczyslaw Gorowski, Jan Lenica, Jan Mlodozeniec, Andrzej Pagowski, Jan Sawka, Marcin Stajewski, Franciszek
Starowieyski, Henryk Tomaszewski and Tadeusz Trepkowski)

Exhibitions
1972 - Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris France
1973 - Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam the Netherlands
1974 - Muzeum Plakatu, Warsaw Poland
1978 - Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam the Netherlands
1981 - Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan Poland
1984 - Kunsthalle, Darmstadt Germany
1986 - Galeria BWA, Łódź Poland
1987 - Galerie de Pret, Angres France
1993 - The Polish Museum of America, Chicago USA
1993 - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris France
1994 - Narodowa Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej Zachęta, Warsaw Poland
1998 - Muzeum Plakatu, Warsaw Poland
2006 - Les Rencontres d'Arles, France
2010 - Royal College of Art in London, United Kingdom less