Plakat i film – polska szkoła plakatu w zbiorach Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Abstract

The article presents the collection of posters located in The Special Collection Department in the Library of Łódź University. This collection mainly includes the film posters, but also the theatre, the social, the sports and the circus ones. Some posters were the mainstream of The Polish School of Posters – the phenomenon that influenced post-war fine arts in our country. Their authors were affiliated with the young generation of artists longing to find their own place in new reality. Here, the names of Henryk Tomaszewski, Eryk Lipiński, Tadeusz Trepkowski, and Józef Mroszczak should be mentioned. The Library collection of film posters consists of 2000 items. The article mainly focuses on those that were the mainstream of The Polish School of Poster.