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Lot Essay
Polish graphic designer and cartoonist Jan Lenica created this poster to advertise for the Polish National Opera's production of Alban Berg's avant-garde opera Wozzeck. In mirroring the subject of the opera itself, Lenica's psychedelic poster engages with the inhumanity and atrocities which are inflicted on ordinary people by authorities. This principal theme of the opera resonated with the sense of anxiousness which was present within the Communist Bloc at the time the poster would have been displayed. The poster was awarded a Gold Medal at the 1966 Warsaw International Poster Biennale.
Jan Lenica was renowned in the world of posters both as an artist and an academic. Lenica was known as one of the finest artists of the Polish School of Posters while also having lectured on Poster Art at Harvard University in 1974 and becoming a professor of Posters and Graphic arts at the Berlin Hochschule der Kunste.
Jan Lenica was renowned in the world of posters both as an artist and an academic. Lenica was known as one of the finest artists of the Polish School of Posters while also having lectured on Poster Art at Harvard University in 1974 and becoming a professor of Posters and Graphic arts at the Berlin Hochschule der Kunste.