Designer · Poland · 1929–2000
Jan Młodożeniec
Jan Młodożeniec (1929–2000) – Polish graphic artist and poster designer, a graduate of Henryk Tomaszewski’s studio, author of over 400 posters.
About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1929–2000
- Country
- Poland
Jan Młodożeniec was born on 8 November 1929 in Warsaw and died there on 12 December 2000. He was the son of the futurist poet Stanisław Młodożeniec. Between 1948 and 1955, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in Professor Henryk Tomaszewski’s poster studio. He designed his first poster in 1951, for the film “Prague 1848”.
He designed over 400 posters, as well as book covers and illustrations, including for “First Step in the Clouds” by Marek Hłasko (1956) and “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck (1956). He designed film posters, including for “Once Upon a Time in America”, “The Godfather”, “The Great Gatsby”, “The Serpent’s Egg”, “Klute” and “The Conformist”. He also worked in painting, producing small-format gouache and tempera works.
Among other distinctions, he received a silver medal (1971, “Visitez la Pologne”) and a bronze medal (1977) in Katowice, the gold medal at the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw (1980, “Cepeliada ’78”), a gold medal in Katowice (1981, “The Serpent’s Egg”) and first prize in Lahti (1983). His works are held, among others, in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin, the Bibliothèque Forney and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and MoMA in New York. In 2009, his posters were shown at the exhibition “Polish Posters 1945–89” at MoMA.
