Wieslaw walkuski biography channel

  • Wiesław Wałkuski is a graphic designer born in Poland.
  • Born in 1956 in Bialystok, Poland.
  • In the late 80s, he struck out as an independent artist and has created roughly 250 posters since.

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    Wieslaw Walkuski was born in 1956 in Bialystok, Poland. In years 1976 - 1981 he studied at the Warsaw Academy of Arts instructed by professors: Maciej Urbaniec - poster design and Teresa Pągowska - painting. In 1981 as a poster designer he started to cooperate with Poland's largest film distributor of the 1980's, Polfilm as well as Film Polski (Polish film exporter), Visual Studio publisher, numerous theaters. He also worked as an illustrator and graphic designer for several publishing houses. Since 1987 he has been working as a freelancer. Today, Wieslaw Walkuski has more than 200 posters to his name. He continues his work as a poster designer, an illustrator and a pa

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    Wieslaw Walkuski





    Wieslaw Walkuski
    Born in 1956 in Bialystok, Poland. Between 1976 and 1981 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Main professors: Teresa Pagowska - painting and Maciej Urbaniec - graphic design. In 1981 he started to cooperate with a number of publishing houses , theatres as well as Polfilm and Film Polski - film distributors. Since 1987 he has been working as a freelancer. He has published about 200 posters. His prolific body of works includes paintings , artistic posters , illustrations. Lives and works in Warsaw.
    Major awards:
    Hollywood Reporter Key Art. Awards, Los Angeles 1st prize 1988 , 2nd prize 1990
    Chicago Film Festival 1st prize 1986 , 2nd prize 1983 , 2nd prize 1988
    International Poster Biennale , Mexico City 2nd prize 1990
    Art. Directors Club , New York 2nd prize 1992
    International Biennale of Theatre Poster , Rzeszow , Poland 3rd prize 1993
    International Poster Festival , Chaumont , France 3rd p

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    From the Life of the Marionettes / B1 / Poland

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    Title
    From the Life of the Marionettes
    AKA
    Aus dem Leben der Marionetten (West Germany - original title)
    Year of Film
    1980
    Director
    Ingmar Bergman
    Starring
    Robert Atzorn, Christine Buchegger, Martin Benrath, Rita Russek, Lola Müthel, Walter Schmidinger, Heinz Bennent, Ruth Olafs, Karl-Heinz Pelser, Gaby Dohm
    Origin of Film
    West Germany | Sweden
    Genre(s) of Film
    Drama
    Type of Poster
    B1
    Style of Poster
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    Origin of Poster
    Poland
    Year of Poster
    1983
    Designer
    Wieslaw Walkuski
    Artist
    Wieslaw Walkuski
    Size (inches)
    26 6/16" x 37 11/16"
    SS or DS
    SS
    Tagline
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    Wieslaw Walkuski artwork features on this Polish poster for the release (in 1983) of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman‘s From the Life of the Marionettes. The bio was developed and shot by Bergman whilst he was living as a tax exile in West Germany and had a screenplay and soundtrac