62x47, own technique on cardboard, 1948
Born 1897 Pavloch in Ukraine, died 1971 Warsaw
He studied at the Alexander Murashka School of Drawing and Painting in Kyiv (1914-1916), at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (1916-1917) and at the private Konrad Krzyzanowski School in Warsaw (1921-1922). During his stay in Paris, in 1928/29, he also benefited from the guidance of Olga Boznanska. In 1930-1933 he was an assistant at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. He painted portraits, nudes and figural compositions, but the main domain of his work was applied graphics. He designed illustrations, stamps, placards and posters. From 1925 to 1939 he exhibited at the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, and after the war he took part, among other things, in the Second National Poster Exhibition at the Zachęta Gallery. He cooperated with the Artistic-Graphic Publishing House (1952-1955), the Polish Film or the quarterly magazine "Świat Mody". He was the author of film posters, including those for "Adventures in Mariensztat" (1954) or "Moulin Rouge" (1957), the poster for "Spartakiada 1951" and numerous propaganda posters, such as "Long Live Our Mining State" or "We Carry a Plough...".
