ERYK LIPINSKI (1908-1991) WARSAW - BERLIN - PRAHA. 1955. 38 3/8x26 5/8 inches. Prasa, Stalingrad. Condition A. Lipinski graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1934, which places him among the earliest generations of Polish poster designers. In the years before World War II he founded Szpieki, a satirical magazine, and from 1978 until his death he was the Director of the Caricature Museum in Warsaw. His primary poster output began after the War (he spent most of the war years in a concentration camp because of his involvement with the resistance). He was a prolific designer, and his style was versatile and varied, reflecting his facility with photography and his talent as a draughtsman. This poster for a bicycle competition is executed in an exacting, Post-Bauhaus style. It is a perfect composition that plays with different typography, geometrical, colored forms and photographs. The style, which is similar to the designs produced by the Italian artist Max Huber during the same period, is very atypical for a Polish artist.
