Designer · United Kingdom · b. 1949
Andrzej Klimowski
Andrzej Klimowski (b. 1949) – British artist of Polish origin, poster designer, illustrator and graphic novelist, linked to the Polish School of Posters.
About the designer
- Lifetime
- b. 1949
- Country
- United Kingdom
Andrzej Klimowski was born in London in 1949 to a family of Polish émigrés. He studied at St Martin’s School of Art in London, and from 1973 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw – poster design under Henryk Tomaszewski and animation under K. Urbański. Until 1980 he worked in Poland as a poster designer and also published in “Szpilki”; in 1980 he returned to the United Kingdom.
The Polish period produced, among others, the posters “Nashville” (1976), “Omen” (1977) and “The Threepenny Opera” (1980); he later created, among others, a poster for the film “Down by Law” (1991). He designed covers for Milan Kundera’s books (1983–1985) and created graphic novels: “The Depository” (Faber, 1994), “The Secret” (2002), “Horace Dorlan” (2007) and “The Master and Margarita” (2008, with Danusia Schejbal). He has been associated with the Royal College of Art in London since 1984, serving as a professor from 1997; he is currently professor emeritus.
His works are held, among others, in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the National Museums in Warsaw and Poznań, and the Library of Congress. He has held solo exhibitions, among others, in Lucca (2000), the Royal National Theatre in London (2001), Bradford (2003) and Poznań (2006).
