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poster artist A poster artist (), or poster designer, a graphic designer of posters. Etymology The name first appeared around 1780, but with a different meaning. It meant one involved in a poster's production and distribution, not its design: in particular, ...

Historic poster artists

* The Beggarstaffs, active 1893–1899 *

Róbert Berény Róbert Berény (18 March 1887 – 10 September 1953) was a Hungary, Hungarian Painting, painter, one of the ''avant-garde'' group known as The Eight (Nyolcak), The Eight who introduced cubism and expressionism to Hungarian art in the early twen ...

(1887–1954) *

Gino Boccasile Gino Boccasile (14 July 1901 – 10 May 1952) was an Italian people, Italian illustrator. Biography Born in Bari, Boccasile was the son of a perfumer. Early in his youth, he lost his left eye by having it struck by a splash of Calcium oxide, ...

(1901–1952) *

Sándor Bortnyik Sándor Bortnyik (July 3, 1893 – December 31, 1976) was a Hungarian painter and graphic designer. His work was greatly influenced by Cubism, Expressionism and Constructivism (art), Constructivism. Life Born in Târgu Mureș, Transylvania ...

(1893–1976) *

Firmin Bouisset Firmin Bouisset (2 September 1859 – 19 March 1925) was a French painter, poster artist and printmaker. Early life and education He was born on 2 September 1859 in the town of Moissac in the Tarn-et-Garonne département in southwestern France. ...

(1859–1925) *

Leonetto Cappiello Leonetto Cappiello (9 April 1875 – 2 February 1942) was an Italian and French poster art designer and painter, who mainly lived and worked in Paris.

(1875–1942) *

Jean Carlu Jean Carlu (1900–1997) was a French graphic designer who specialised in posters. He was a member of a family of architects; his brother Jacques Carlu for example designed the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. He made posters during World War II to pr ...

(1900–1997) *

Adolphe Mouron Cassandre Cassandre, pseudonym of Adolphe Jean-Marie MouronNotice d'autorité personne ...

(1901–1968) * Angelo Cesselon (1922–1992) *

Jules Chéret Jules Chéret (31 May 1836 – 23 September 1932) was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of ''Belle Époque'' poster art. He has been called the father of the modern poster. Early life and career Born in Paris to a poor bu ...

(1836–1932) * Paul Colin (1892–1985) *

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Count, ''Comte'' Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colour ...

(1864–1901) *

Viktor Deni Viktor Nikolaevich Denisov (; March 8, 1893 – August 3, 1946), best known by the shortened pseudonym Viktor Deni, was a Russian and Soviet satirist, cartoonist and poster artist. Deni was one of the major agitprop poster artists of the Bolshe ...

(1893–1946) *

Tom Eckersley Tom Eckersley OBE (30 September 1914 – 4 August 1997) was an English poster artist and teacher of design. Early career Tom Eckersley was born on 30 September 1914 in Lancashire. His artistic training began in 1930 when he enrolled at Sa ...

(1914–1995) *

Hans Rudi Erdt Hans Rudi Erdt (31 March 1883 – 24 May 1918) was a German people, German graphic designer, lithographer and commercial artist known for his contributions to the Plakatstil, Sachplakat movement created by Lucian Bernhard. His work at the presti ...

(1883–1918) *

Boris Efimov Boris Yefimovich Yefimov (; ,The birth record of Boris Fridlyand (Boris Yefimov) in the metric book of the Kiev rabbinate for 1900 ( ЦГИАК Украины. Ф. 1164. Оп. 1. Д. 454. Л. 435об—436.) (rus) – October 1, 2008) was a Russi ...

(1900–2008) * Jean Michel Folon (1934–2005) * John Gilroy (1898–1985) *

Eugène Grasset Eugène Samuel Grasset (; 25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) was a Swiss decorative artist who worked in Paris, France in a variety of creative design fields during the Belle Époque. He is considered a pioneer in Art Nouveau design. Biography ...

(1845–1917) *

Tadeusz Gronowski Tadeusz Lucjan Gronowski (5 October 1894 in Warsaw–20 February 1990 in Warsaw) was a Polish graphic artist, architect who worked as an interior designer, painter, and a book illustrator. He is considered to be one of the creators of the Po ...

(1894–1990) *

Albert Guillaume Albert Guillaume (14 February 1873 – 10 August 1942) was a French painter and caricaturist. Born in Paris, France, Albert Guillaume became a leading caricaturist during the Belle Époque. While remembered for his poster art, Guillaume also di ...

(1873–1942) *

Ludwig Hohlwein Ludwig Hohlwein (26 July 1874 in Wiesbaden – 15 September 1949 in Berchtesgaden) was a German poster artist, a pioneer of the ''Sachplakat'' style. He trained and practiced as an architect in Munich before he switched to poster design. Early y ...

(1874–1949) *

Georgy Kovenchuk Gaga (Georgy Vasilyevich) Kovenchuk (; 2 December 1933 — 3 February 2015) was a Soviet-Russian artist and writer. Gaga was an artist, painter, graphic artist, book artist and poster artist, printmaker (etching, aquatint, lithography, linocut, w ...

(1933–2015) *

Gustav Klutsis Gustav Gustavovich Klutsis (, ; 4 January 1895 – 26 February 1938) was a pioneering Latvian photographer and major member of the Constructivist avant-garde in the early 20th century. He is known for the Soviet revolutionary and Stalinist pro ...

(1895–1938) *

Privat Livemont Privat Antoine Théodore Livemont (1861–1936) was a Belgian Symbolist painter and Art Nouveau decorator who sometimes worked under the name T. Privat-Livemont. Life Livemont was born in Schaerbeek, Brussels, on 9 October 1861, to Henri Liv ...

(1861–1936) *

Achille Mauzan Achille Lucien Mauzan (1883, in Gap, Hautes-Alpes – 1952, in Gap) was born on the French Riviera, but moved to Italy in 1905, known as a decorative illustrator designing during the Art Deco movement, though he also painted and sculpted. Afte ...

(1883–1952) *

Dmitry Moor D. Moor () was the professional name of Dmitry Stakhievich Orlov (; 3 November 1883 in Novocherkassk – 24 October 1946 in Moscow), a Russian artist noted for his propaganda posters. The pseudonym "Moor" was taken from the name of the protagonis ...

(1883–1946) *

Alfons Mucha Alfons Maria Mucha (; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, he was widely known for his distinctly stylized ...

(1860–1939) * Frank Newbould (1887–1951) *

Raymond Savignac Raymond Savignac (; 6 November 1907, Paris, – 29 October 2002, Trouville-sur-Mer), often just abbreviated to "Savignac", was a French graphic artist famous for his commercial posters. His work is distinguished by a humorous simplicity. Self-tau ...

(1907–2002) *

Galina Shubina Galina Konstantinovna Shubina (Russian: Галина Константиновна Шубина; 1902–1980), was a Soviet poster and graphics artist. Biography Galina Shubina was born in Voronezh in 1902. From the age of 13 she studied in th ...

(1902–1980) *

Franciszek Starowieyski Franciszek Andrzej Bobola Biberstein-Starowieyski (8 July 1930 in Bratkówka – 23 February 2009 in Warsaw) was a Polish artist. From 1949 to 1955, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and Warsaw. He specialized in poster, drawing, ...

(1930–2009) *

Théophile Steinlen Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (November 10, 1859 – December 13, 1923), was a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker. He was politically engaged and collaborated with the anarchist and socialist press. Biography Born in Lausanne ...

(1859–1923) * Henryk Tomaszewski (1914–2005) * B.A. Uspensky (1927–2005) * Heinz Traimer (1921–2002)

Modern poster artists

Reza Abedini Reza Abedini (b. 1967) is a visual artist and graphic designer from Tehran, Iran. Between 1985 and 1990 he studied for degrees in design and the visual arts at the School of Fine Arts in Tehran and the Art University of Tehran. Subsequently, he ha ...

Beautiful Angle Beautiful Angle is a guerrilla arts poster project in Tacoma, Washington.B ...

Michel Bouvet Michel Bouvet (born 1955 in Tunis) is a French designer and poster artist. He is professor of visual culture at ESAG Penninghen (Paris). Biography Bouvet studied and graduated at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSB-A). His des ...

Syd Brak Syd Brak was a London-based illustrator. He is particularly recognized for his top selling poster ''Long Distance Kiss''. Early career In the mid-1970s, Syd was awarded the 'gold award' for design and illustration in Johannesburg South Africa by ...

* Pola Brändle *

Seymour Chwast Seymour Chwast (born August 18, 1931) is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer. Biography Chwast was born in the Bronx, New York City and in 1948 graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn where he was intr ...

Warren Dayton Warren Lloyd Dayton is an American illustrator, artist and graphic designer best known for his posters from psychedelic art era, a pioneer of the use of T-shirts as an art medium, creator of corporate branding & logos such as Thomas Kinkade’s L ...

Shepard Fairey Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is an American contemporary artist, activist and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene. In 1989, he designed the " Andre the Giant Has a Posse" (...OBEY...) sticker campa ...

* Jim Fitzpatrick *

Shigeo Fukuda was a sculptor, medallist, graphic artist and poster designer who created optical illusions. He is one of Japan's most well-known post-war graphic designers. He is known to be an environmentalist and anti-war, for he designed posters on thes ...

Jean-Michel Folon Jean-Michel Folon (1 March 1934 – 20 October 2005) was a Belgian artist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor. Early life Folon was born on 1 March 1934 in Uccle, Brussels, in 1934. He studied architecture at the Institut Saint-Luc. Career T ...

André François André François may refer to: *André François (athlete) (born 1964), Vincentian sprinter *André François (footballer) (1886–1915), French international footballer *André François (cartoonist) (1915–2005), Hungarian-born French cartoonist ...

* Erick Ginard *

Milton Glaser Milton Glaser (June 26, 1929June 26, 2020) was an American graphic designer, recognized for his designs, including the I Love New York logo; a 1966 poster for Bob Dylan; the logos for DC Comics, Stony Brook University, Brooklyn Brewery; and his ...

David Lance Goines David Lance Goines (May 29, 1945 – February 19, 2023), was an American artist, calligrapher, printmaker, typographer, printing entrepreneur, and author. He was born in Grants Pass, Oregon, the oldest of eight children. His father was a civil eng ...

Smear (Cristian Gheorghiu) Cristian Gheorghiu is a Romanian born street artist/graffiti artist and under the name of Smear in the 2000s. He's been referred to as "a subculture sensation" and his work has appeared in contemporary art galleries, and a solo museum exhibit in ...

* Fons Hickmann *

Istvan Horkay István Horkay (born December 25, 1945, in Budapest) is a Hungarian painter, printmaker, digital artist, member of the HEAAAmos Paul Kennedy, Jr. *

Dóra Keresztes Dóra Keresztes (born 3 October 1953, Budapest) Hungarian people, Hungarian Painting, painter, printmaker, illustrator, graphic designer and animated film director. Biography She graduated from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, H ...

Jan Lenica Jan Lenica (4 January 1928, Poznań, Poland – 5 October 2001, Berlin) was a Polish graphic designer and cartoonist. A graduate of the Architecture Department of Warsaw Polytechnic, Lenica became a poster illustrator and a collaborator on the e ...

Stanley Mouse Stanley George Miller (born October 10, 1940), better known as Mouse or Stanley Mouse, is an American artist who is notable for his 1960s psychedelic rock concert poster designs and album covers for the Grateful Dead, Journey, and other bands. ...

István Orosz István Orosz (born 24 October 1951) is a Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director. He is known for his mathematically inspired works, impossible objects, optical illusions, double-meaning images and anamorphose ...

Rafal Olbinski Rafal may refer to: People * Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski (born 1969), British experimental physicist * Rafal Kiernicki (1912–1995), Roman Catholic prelate from Ukraine * Rafal Korc (born 1982), Polish Paralympic athlete * Rafał Sznajder (1972� ...

David Plunkert David Plunkert is an American illustrator and graphic designer based in Baltimore, Maryland. He is best known for his editorial illustrations and theater posters. His illustrations are highly conceptual, in two styles, Dada influenced collage and s ...

Favianna Rodriguez Favianna Rodriguez (born September 26, 1978) is an American visual artist, and activist, known for her work in political posters, graphic arts, and public art. Her artwork topics include global politics, economic injustice, interdependence, patr ...

Wiesław Rosocha Wiesław Rosocha (16 September 1945 in Sokołów Podlaski, Poland – 15 March 2020 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish illustrator and graphic designer. Rosocha attended Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1969 to 1974. Major awards *1981 - Special ...

Wiktor Sadowski Wiktor Sadowski is a Polish artist working in poster, illustration and painting. He was born in Oleandry, Poland in 1956. He graduated in 1981 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in Tomaszewski's studio. Major awards *1984 - Gold Medal, IX/X ...

* Mehdi Saeedi *

Jan Sawka Jan Sawka (December 10, 1946 – August 9, 2012) was a Polish-born American artist and architect. Early life In 1946, Sawka was born to an architect father and linguist mother, Jan and Maria Sawka, in the Silesian city of Zabrze. His father was ...

* Todd Slater *

Waldemar Świerzy Waldemar Świerzy ( 1931 – 27 November 2013) was a Polish artist. Life Born in Katowice, Poland, he graduated from the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts in 1952. He was subsequently Professor in the University of Fine Arts in Poznań from 1 ...

Piotr Szyhalski Piotr Szyhalski is a Polish-born and trained multimedia artist working in the United States since 1990. He has produced poster designs, mail art, photographs, painted murals, prints, web-based digital art, sound art, large installations, and publi ...

* David Tartakover *

Niklaus Troxler Niklaus Troxler (born May 1, 1947) is a Swiss people, Swiss graphic designer. He was the organizer of the Willisau Jazz Festival from 1975 to 2009. Biography Troxler studied graphic design at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. H ...

Jefferson Wood Jefferson Wood (born July 6, 1973) is an American artist and one of the leading designers of concert posters and admats for the music industry. Wood is closely identified with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Sublime with Rome, George Jones, Paul ...

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Poster A poster is a large sheet that is placed either on a public space to promote something or on a wall as decoration. Typically, posters include both typography, textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or w ...