Franciszek Starowieyski
Franciszek Andrzej Bobola Biberstein-Starowieyski (8 July 1930 in
Bratkówka – 23 February 2009 in
Warsaw) was a Polish artist. From 1949 to 1955, he studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts in
Kraków and Warsaw. He specialized in poster, drawing, painting, stage designing, and book illustration. He was a member of
Alliance Graphique International (AGI). Throughout his career his style deviated from the socialist realism that was prevalent during the start of his career and the popular, brightly colored
Cyrk posters; however he did create one Cyrk poster ''Homage to Picasso'' in 1966.
He was the first Polish artist to have a one-man show at the
Museum of Modern Art (
MoMA) in New York, in 1986.
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