Name/Title
LorenzaccioEntry/Object ID
2009.173Description
Theatre poster of a melting man’s face, similar to that of a classical sculpture. The melting material disfigures the face with only one blue eye peering back at the viewer. Superimposed on the top half of the page, and the man’s forehead, is the title of the play, Lorenzaccio. Above, in smaller texts is the name of the playwright, and the institution putting on the show “Teatr Narodowy”Context
Created in the late 1970s, this work was an advertisement for Alfred de Musset's Lorenzaccio, a French play of the Romantic period written in 1834 and set in 16th-century Florence. It was run and produced by the "Teatr Narodowy," the National Theatre in Warsaw, Poland. This work had two creators: Mroszczak and Krauze. Mroszczak, the poster's primary artist, was a Polish graphic designer born in 1910.
This work bears Krauze's signature. It demonstrates the nation's capital's surge in interest in art. It also reflects two phases of Polish artists: one older, who had experienced Nazi-occupied Germany, and the newer generation, channeling revolutionary ideals through design.Acquisition
Notes
Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Patricia RosenbergMade/Created
Artist Information
Marcin Mroszczak
Krauze, A.
Date made
1976Ethnography
Cultural Region
Country
PolandContinent
EuropeNotes
Europe
PolandInscription/Signature/Marks
Type
InscriptionLocation
TRTranscription
Alfred De Musset
Teatr Narodowy
LorenzaccioLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Poster, TheaterNomenclature Primary Object Term
PosterNomenclature Class
Advertising MediaNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsGetty AAT
Concept
posters, information artifacts, information forms (objects)Hierarchy Name
Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)Facet
Objects FacetLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Theater posters, PostersSearch Terms
posterLegacy Lexicon
Object Name
PosterClass
WORKS ON PAPERDimensions
Dimension Description
sheetWidth
26-1/4 inLength
36-1/8 in