MAZ I ZONA 
(Husband and Wife)

Original Vintage Polish Theater Poster
By JAN LENICA

Title: Maz i Zona / Husband and Wife
Item: Theater poster (Teatr Narodowy)
Director / actor: Aleksander Fredro 
Designer: Jan Lenica
Year:  1977
Medium: Offset lithography
Size:  B1 approx 26 x 39 in (66 x 99 cm)
Orientation:  Vertical
Condition: Very good condition with only one or two edge dings from rolled storage.

Biography:

Jan Lenica (4 January 1928, Poznań, Poland - 5 October 2001, Berlin) was a Polish graphic designer and cartoonist.

A graduate of the Architecture Department of Warsaw Polytechnic, Lenica became a poster illustrator and a collaborator on the early animation films of Walerian Borowczyk. From 1963 - 1986 he lived and worked in France, while from 1987 he lived and worked in Berlin. He was a professor of graphic, poster, animated cartoon for many years at German high schools and the first professor of the animation class at the University of Kassel, Germany, in 1979. He used cut-out stop motion animation in his numerous films, which included two features: Adam 2 (1968) and Ubu et la grande gidouille (1976, but released in France only in 1979).

Major awards:
1960 - Nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for Dom. Shared with Polish Walerian Borowczyk
1961 - Toulouse-Lautrec Grand Prix, Versailles (France)
1961 - Golden Dragon for Nowy Janko Muzykant tied with Maly Western, in Cracow (Poland)
1962 - 1st and 3rd prizes, International Film Poster Exhibition, Karlove Vary (Czech Republic)
1963 - Annecy International Animated Film Festival / FIPRESCI Prize for Labirynt
1964 - Honorable Mention for Die Nashörner in Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (Germany)
1966 - Gold Medal Prix Max Ernst, International Poster Biennale, Warsaw (Poland)
1971 - Gold Medal, International Tourism Poster Exhibition, Catania (Italy)
1985 - Prix Jules Chéret (France)
1987 - Graphics award, Children Book Fair, Bologna (Italy)
1999 - Dragon of Dragons Honorary Awards in Cracow Film Festival (Poland)





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