Eryk Lipinski
Eryk Lipinski Eryk Lipiński was a Polish artist. Satirist, caricaturist, essayist, he has designed posters, written plays and sketches for cabarets, as well as written books on related subjects. He studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1933 to 1939. During World War II he was one of the artists working with the Polish resistance, involved in production of false documents. He was arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in the infamous Pawiak prison, in Mokotów prison and in the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the war he contributed to many newspapers and magazines, such as Przekrój, Przegląd Kulturalny, Trybuna Ludu, Panorama, Zwierciadło and Express Wieczorny. In 1966 he organized the First International Poster Biennale. In 1978 he founded the Museum of Caricature in Warsaw and was its first director.One of the Polish Righteous among the Nations (he received this title in 1991).
Poster to “Adventure in Marienstadt” directed by Leonard Buczkowski, 1954
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