Eryk Lipinski
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Kraków
Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...
- 27 September 1991) was a Polish artist. Satirist, caricaturist, essayist, he has designed poster
Poster
A poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface. Typically posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and informative. Posters may be...
s, written plays and sketches for cabaret
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...
s, as well as written books on related subjects.
Biography
Eryk Lipiński studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1933 to 1939. His debut as a caricaturist was made few years earlier, in 1928, in magazine Pobudka. In 1935 he cofounded with Zbigniew Mitzner a satirical newspaper Szpilki; he was its chief editor for several years (1935-37 and 1946-53). During World War II he was one of the artists working with the Polish resistance, involved in production of false documents. He was arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in the infamous PawiakPawiak
Pawiak was a prison built in 1835 in Warsaw, Poland.During the January 1863 Uprising, it served as a transfer camp for Poles sentenced by Imperial Russia to deportation to Siberia....
prison, in Mokotów prison
Mokotów Prison
Mokotów Prison is a prison in Warsaw's borough of Mokotów, Poland, located at Rakowiecka 37 street. It was built by the Russians in the final years of the foreign Partitions of Poland...
and in the Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp
Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...
.
After the war he joined the Polish communist party (PZPR). He contributed to many newspapers and magazines, such as Przekrój
Przekrój
Przekrój is the oldest Polish weekly newsmagazine, established in 1945 in Krakow and since 2001 published in Warsaw. Przekrój was created by M. Eile who, until 1969, was the first editor-in-chief of the magazine...
, Przegląd Kulturalny, Trybuna Ludu
Trybuna Ludu
Trybuna Ludu was one of the largest newspapers in communist Poland. It was the official media outlet of the Polish United Workers' Party and one of its main propaganda outlets.-Creation:...
, Panorama
Panorama
A panorama is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film/video, or a three-dimensional model....
, Zwierciadło and Express Wieczorny. In 1966 he organized the First International Poster Biennale (Międzynarodowe Biennale Plakatu). In 1978 he founded the Museum of Caricature in Warsaw and was its first director (it would be named after him in 2002). In 1980 he formed the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Monuments in Poland. Active in preserving Polish Jewish culture; in 1987 he founded the Association of Polish Cartoonists (Stowarzyszenie Polskich Artystów Karykatury, SPAK).
One of the Polish Righteous among the Nations
Polish Righteous among the Nations
Polish citizens have the world's highest count of individuals awarded medals of Righteous among the Nations, given by the State of Israel to non-Jews who saved Jews from extermination during the Holocaust...
(he received this title in 1991).
Awards
- 1948 - seven 1st prizes at the International Poster Exhibition in Vienna
- 1964 - 1st prize for the best political poster of 1963
- 1966 - Gold Pin (Złota Szpilka)
- 1972 - Gold Pin with Laurel (Złota Szpilka z Wawrzynem)
- 1981 - "Distinguished Artist of the Year 1980" of The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
External links
- ERYK LIPINSKI: Biography and Posters (gallery)
- Eryk Lipiński: Satire and Humour
- Founding Father on Display, Warsaw VoiceWarsaw VoiceWarsaw Voice: Polish and Central European Review is an English language newspaper printed in Poland, concentrating on news about Poland and its neighbours. First released in October 1988, it is a general news magazine with sections on political, economic, social and cultural news and with opinions...
, 9 July 2008 Konkurs na rysunek satyryczny (Satirical picture competition) in memory of Eryk Lipiński; p. 4 contains a set of photos of Lipiński