What Cracow Poster Gallery is known for
Gallery in Krakow's Old Town founded in 1985 by Krzysztof Dydo, Poland's only gallery dedicated solely to Polish promotional and commercial posters, holding roughly 2,500 titles by some 200 artists.
Cracow Poster Gallery was founded in 1985 by Krzysztof Dydo and has operated as private property since 1994, run by Dydo together with Ewa Pabis. It describes itself as the only gallery in Poland specializing exclusively in Polish promotional and commercial posters, a category with a distinct international reputation: Polish poster design traces back to the Society of Polish Artists' 1898 First International Exposition of the Poster in Krakow. The gallery's holdings run to around 2,500 poster titles by nearly 200 Polish graphic artists, painters, and designers. It has mounted monographic exhibitions on major names in the field, including Henryk Tomaszewski, Roman Cieslewicz, and Jan Lenica.
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Best for — Original Polish posters, curated since 1985
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