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Franciszek Starowieyski

Born in July 1930 in Krakow, Franciszek Starowieyski studied at the Fine Arts Schools in Krakow and Warsaw.

After starting out in poster design in 1956, he developed his unique and recognizable style during the 1960s.

Medal Gold Medal at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1979. Silver Medal at the Warsaw International Poster Biennale in 1978 and 3rd Prize at the same biennale in 2000. An exhibition was dedicated to him at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1986. Franciszek Starowieyski is one of the most famous Polish cinema and theatre poster designers of the second half of the 20th century.

A descendant of an aristocratic family, during the People's Poland regime he took the pseudonym "Taurus" (Byk) to avoid revealing his noble origins.

To demonstrate his preference for the era when his family belonged to the country's elite, he dates his works starting with the number 16. This number was intended to signify that he placed them in the Baroque era, the period in which he would have liked to have lived.

- Awarded at the Sao Paulo International Arts Biennial in 1973

- Awarded at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival Film Poster Competition

- International Poster Biennale, Warsaw, Silver Medals in 1974 and 1978

- International Film Festival Chicago, Gold Medal in 1979

- Film Poster Competition Silver Hugo 1982.

Franciszek Starowieyski passed away in February 2009.