"Pralnia" (Laundry Tym S.)
1981 · Offset lithograph
26 1/16 x 38 1/2" (66.2 x 97.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Henryk Tomaszewski
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Film Posters
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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Henryk Tomaszewski was a Polish graphic designer and typographer whose postwar work established modernist principles in Eastern European visual communication. Working primarily in poster design and print, he developed a distinctive approach to compositional balance and legibility that influenced generations of designers across Poland and beyond. His practice bridged functionalist aesthetics with expressive formal invention, establishing design as a serious cultural discipline in the postwar period.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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