Bylam Glupia Dziewczyna [The Stupid Girl]

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2011.41

Description

This film poster shows the silhouette of a woman with a hat, butterfly, and flower layered on top. This is for the Polish film “I Was a Stupid Girl”

Artwork Details

Medium

Photomechanical print

Subject

Polish film poster

Context

The artist Maciej Hibner is one of the leading artists of the Polish Poster School whose designs are highly collectable and sought after. Hibner studied at the University of Fine arts in Warsaw, Poland and graduated in 1955. His classmates included many of the artists of the Polish Poster School, along with the movement’s founding father, Professor Henryk Tomaszewski. Hibner is still creating art and had a long career as a poster designer and spent five years as in-house poster designer for LOT airlines.

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Patricia Rosenberg

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Hibner, Maciej

Role

Graphic Artist

Date made

1966

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Poland, Hungary

Continent

Europe

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

V: BL

Transcription

Printed in Poland

Language

English

Material/Technique

stamp

Notes

Stamped in purple

Location

R: TC

Transcription

Bylam glupia dziewczyna

Language

Polish

Translation

I was a stupid girl

Location

R: TR

Transcription

Produkcja Mefilm"

Language

Polish

Translation

Mefilm production

Type

Inscription

Location

Transcription

“ komedia filmowa z zycia aktorow“

Language

Polish

Translation

“Hungarian film comedy from the actors' lives”

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Poster

Nomenclature Class

Advertising Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

posters, information artifacts, information forms (objects)

Hierarchy Name

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

Facet

Objects Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Film industry (Motion pictures), Posters, Graphic design

Dimensions

Width

22-3/4 in

Length

31-1/2 in