Today’s collection is a series of Polish circus (or "Cyrk") posters from the 1960s and 1970s. These circus posters represent a specific genre within the larger Polish School of Posters, a movement that ran from 1950 to 1980, primarily in Warsaw. Cyrk posters first emerged in 1962, when the government agency that oversaw the state-run circus commissioned prominent artists like Henryk Tomaszewski and Roman Cieslewicz (previously featured in
Issue Twenty Two: CYRK
Issue Twenty Two: CYRK
Issue Twenty Two: CYRK
Today’s collection is a series of Polish circus (or "Cyrk") posters from the 1960s and 1970s. These circus posters represent a specific genre within the larger Polish School of Posters, a movement that ran from 1950 to 1980, primarily in Warsaw. Cyrk posters first emerged in 1962, when the government agency that oversaw the state-run circus commissioned prominent artists like Henryk Tomaszewski and Roman Cieslewicz (previously featured in