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Jerzy Flisak | |
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| Born | 24 September 1930 |
| Died | 21 February 2008 (aged 77) |
| Known for | Illustration, Drawing, Painting |
| Movement | Polish School of Posters |
Imbued with a heartwarming humour, the illustrative designs of Jerzy Flisak were seen on posters, theatre sets, children's books and editorial pages throughout Communist Poland. He lived in Warsaw, and as a practitioner among the Polish School of Posters the majority of Flisak's poster commissions were for feature films.
Biography
[edit]Born before the Second World War, Flisak attended Jose Marti high school before studying architecture at Warsaw Polytechnic where he graduated in 1953. Debuting while still a student, he went on to illustrate editorial artwork for several periodicals, foremost being the weekly satirical magazine, Szpilki, where he later became the graphic editor.[1]
Flisak also worked with the weekly kids magazine Świerszczyk, where his Bobik comic strip ran for over 20 years. [2] Similarly, his work was commissioned by Płomyczk, a weekly kids magazine which fostered ecological attitudes in its readership. Until the early 90s his artwork accompanied editorial columns for the monthly youth magazine, Młody Technik. Commissions for editorial illustration also came from the political weeklies Polityka, Świat, and the socio-cultural magazine, Przegląd Kulturalny.
Within Communist Poland, children's book publishing received considerable state support.[3] Working with several writers from the late 50s onward, Flisak illustrated many children's books. These included Herbert in the Big Hat, Detective Nosek, Pimpus Sadełko, Dwarfts in the World, Little Penguin Pik-Pok, Nasreddin Hodja, and The Dog from Bałamut Street among others.[4] After the mid 70s, Flisak assisted the Animation Film Studio in Bielsko-Biała, where he helped to develop the animated mini series Margo the Mouse. In 1987, Polish caricaturist and former colleague at Szpilki, Eryk Lipiński, founded the Association of Polish Cartoonists (SPAK), of which Flisak became a longstanding member.
From the mid 50s to the early 80s, Flisak designed over 300 film posters. These publicised Polish, European, Russian and American films being released via the state owned film distribution agency, Centrala Wynajmu Filmów (CWF).[5] His poster designs were often undertaken with a bold painterly approach using flat gouache. Among those film titles were posters for: The Great Gatsby, Winchester 73, Laurel and Hardy, Silent Movie, and The Conversation to name a few. Flisak's black and white Poster for Blood Feud received an award from the Art Directors Club of New York in 1962. Kevin Mulroy of Autry Museum described his poster artwork as a "beautiful elegy to the passing of an era".[6] He passed away after a lifelong career of illustrating, and is buried in Warsaw's Powązki Cemetery. In 2023, the annual Satyricon drawing festival dedicated a commemorative plaque to Jerzy Flisak, which was added to their Alley of Stars in Legnica.[7]
Awards
[edit]- 1961 Minister of Art and Culture award for for satirical works
- 1962 Art Directors Club of New York award for Blood Feud, Directed by Damiano Damiani in 1961
- 1967 Szpilki Magazine Golden Pin
- 1972 Szpilki Magazine Golden Pin[2]
Exhibitions
[edit]- 1966 One of Poland's representatives at the first Warsaw International Poster Biennale[8]
- 1985 Jerzy Flisak – Exhibition of Drawings. Museum of Caricature, Warsaw
- 1995 Humour in the Illustration of Jerzy Flisak. Museum of Caricature, Warsaw
- 1997 Draftsmen of the Polityka Magazine 1957-1997. Museum of Caricature, Warsaw
- 1998 Panorama of Polish Caricature 1945-1998. Group exhibition at the Museum of Caricature, Warsaw
- 2001 Jerzy Flisak – Drawings and Posters. Museum of Caricature, Warsaw
- 2008 Twenty Years of SPAK. Jubilee group exhibition at the Museum of Caricature, Warsaw
- 2009 Jerzy Flisak – Satirical Drawing. Desa Unicum, Warsaw
- 2012 Fauna, Flora and Pirates. Graphic and Poster Gallery, Warsaw[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Navarro, David; Sobecka, Martyna, eds. (2023). Słup: The Polish Poster Column (in Polish and English). Foreword by Katarzyna Matul. Poznań: Zupagrafika. ISBN 978-83-963268-3-6.
- 1 2 3 "Jerzy Flisak". Culture.pl. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
- ↑ Hojka, Bożena; Jamróz-Stolarska, Elżbieta (2023-03-29). "Political, Cultural, and Social Factors in the Transformations of the Children's Book Market in Poland on the Example of Nasza Księgarnia Publishing House". Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia ad Bibliothecarum Scientiam Pertinentia. 20: 272. doi:10.24917/20811861.20.17.
- ↑ "Jerzy Flisak". nakanapie.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2026-07-28.
- ↑ "Artists CL: Flisak". cinemaposter.com. Archived from the original on 2026-04-15. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
- ↑ Mulroy, Kevin (1999). Mulroy, Kevin; Autry Museum of Western Heritage (eds.). Western Amerykański: Polish Poster Art and the Western. Los Angeles: University of Washington Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-295-97812-3.
- ↑ Paulina (2023-06-15). "JERZY FLISAK w Alei Gwiazd Satyrykonu". Satyrykon (in Polish). Retrieved 2026-07-28.
- ↑ Folga-Januszewska, Dorota (2018). The Art of Polish Poster. Olszanica: Wydawnictwo Bosz Szymanik i wspólnicy. p. 249. ISBN 978-83-7576-204-4.