Polnische Plakate und ihre historischen Verflechtungen. Zwei Ausstellungen aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1956/57

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Polish posters and their historical context. Two expositions in Germany in 1956 and 1957

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Poster design from the People’s Republic of Poland, the so-called “Polish School of Posters”, occupied a prominent place within international graphic design from the 1950s on. Understanding this deve-lopment as a “histoire croisée”, the article combines two viewpoints – the originating environment in Poland and the reception of the posters in non-socialist countries. Exemplified by two exhibitions in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1956 and 1957, the analysis re-veals how processes and dynamics on national and transnational le-vels contributed to the prominent position of Polish posters in the art of advertising and to their functionalization in (foreign) cultural policies during the East-West conflict.

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Bibliographie: Harder, Jeannine: Polnische Plakate und ihre historischen Verflechtungen. Zwei Ausstellungen aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1956/57, JB historie, 1-2013, S. 304-313. https://doi.org/10.3224/jbh.v7i1.19