Klau Mir Eine Kleine Milliarde

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2009.175

Description

This is a theater poster for a play called “Grab Me a Little Billion”. It depicts an old person's face with rainbow hair and an infant body. Text at top and bottom of sheet.

Artwork Details

Medium

Offset lithograph

Subject Place

Country

Germany

Continent

Europe

Context

This poster was made for Das Theater Münster, formerly Städtische Bühnen Münster, in Munster Germany and its production of Klau Mir Eine Kleine Milliarde (literally translating to "Grab Me a Little Billion") in 1979. The poster was “commissioned by German theater director Dr. Erdmut August who also created what may be the world's largest international theater poster archive with holdings of 16,000 different posters by many of the world's leading poster artists.

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul University, gift of Patricia Rosenberg

Made/Created

Artist

Andrzej Pagowski

Date made

1999

Notes

The artist, Andrzej Pagowski (1953-) is a Polish poster and graphic design artist. He is considered to be of the third generation of artists in the Polish School of Posters movement. In 1990, he created his own graphic studio, Studio P, which developed into an advertising agency, the KreacjaPro agency, in 1993 which continues in operation today. Pagowski comes from noble lineage. In 1978 he graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Applied Arts at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Poznań. His career consists of satirical drawings, then design for all kinds of goods. At one point he was the artistic director of a Playboy-type magazine. “Andrzej Pągowski has received dozens of national awards and distinctions. In 2005, for his outstanding achievements in artistic creativity, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture– Gloria Artis. In 2011, he received the Medal of the National Education Commission, and in 2012, the Award of the Capital City of Warsaw.” He is considered a notable figure of the Polish School of Posters movement.

Ethnography

Notes

Polish Europe, Poland

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

Top center

Transcription

“ STADTISCHE BUHNEN MUNSTER”

Language

German

Translation

Munster Municipal Stage

Type

Inscription

Location

Bottom center

Transcription

“ KLAU MIR EINE KLEINE MILLIARDE”

Language

German

Translation

Grab me a little billion

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

posters, information artifacts, information forms (objects), theater (discipline), theater arts, performing arts (discipline), arts (broad discipline), humanities, disciplines (concept)

Hierarchy Name

Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Disciplines (hierarchy name)

Facet

Objects Facet, Activities Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Posters, Theater posters

Legacy Lexicon

Class

WORKS ON PAPER

Dimensions

Dimension Description

sheet

Width

23-3/8 in

Length

33 in