Vintage Posters | Aretheus | Grzegorz Morycinski

This play (Areteusz, or, Aretheus) was written by Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981), who was widely considered to be the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century. He wrote notable works in all the literary genres, including poetry, theater, short stories, and novels. His works often include themes of bourgeois hypocrisy and conformism in Austria-Hungary and Yugoslavia. Krleža wrote numerous essays on problems of art, history, politics, literature, philosophy, and military strategy, and was known as one of the great polemicists of the century. Krleža’s formative influences include Scandinavian drama, French symbolism, and Austrian and German expressionism and modernism, by key authors like Ibsen, Strindberg and Proust. The poster artist Grzegorz Morycinski was born in 1936. Morycinski attended the Secondary School of Fine Arts and in 1956, he began studies at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Later he started working as a graphic designer at Moda Polska. In 1964 he went to Paris for a short time. In 1969 he received a three-month scholarship from the Italian government. Between 1974 and 1976, he lived in London and Sweden. Morycinski received the National Competition award twice. He was active in the Association of Polish Artists and he was a scholarship holder of the Fund for the Development of Visual Art. In 2006, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage awarded him a special prize and in 2008, he was awarded the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis. He passed away in 2015.