JAROSLAV FIŠER - FILM POSTERS
JAROSLAV FIŠER - FILM POSTERS
Born on 10 October 1919 in Prague, died on 21 June 2003.
Graphic designer, typographer and exhibition designer.
He studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague (1937-1939 and 1945-1946; Oldřich Blažíček, Cyril Bouda, Martin Salcman), the School of Applied Arts (1941-1943) and the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Prague (1945-1946; Josef Novák).
He has exhibited individually since 1946 and collectively since the 1940s. A member of the Bilance group (since 1957) and the Artistic Beseda group (since 1992), he designed one hundred and four film posters for the Central Film Lending Library between 1959 and 1987. The poster for Věra Chytilová's film The Apple Game won the Silver Hugo award at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1976.
After his studies, he wanted to devote himself to monumental painting. He spent a year studying in China during a Czechoslovak travelling exhibition in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. He was inspired by the works of Jaroslav Šváb and Václav Kaplický. He worked in the exhibition industry (he participated in the preparation of the Brussels and Montreal expositions) and created the logo for the Czechoslovak exhibition in Brussels. He was a member of the Bilance group. He combined various artistic means (graphic signs, elements of collage with typographic techniques). He also worked in applied graphics (graphic design of the Proměny edition, book covers (Smaragd edition, Czech Poems, Theatre), and designed postage stamps.
The exhibition at the Scala University Cinema presents 22 film posters by Jaroslav Fišer. Among them are posters for important films of world cinema. Jaroslav Fišer was also the exclusive designer of posters for Vera Chytilová's films, of which the exhibition will present six.