Tadeusz Jodłowski

Tadeusz Jodłowski (1925 – 31 October 2015) was a Polish artist.

Career Born in Piekary Śląskie, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1951. Jodłowski has worked as an artist taking part in exhibitions both in Poland and abroad since 1953. Amongst his contributions were Cyrk posters belonging to the Polish School of Posters.

He is equally proficient using graphic forms, painterly means of expression or shapes derived from sculpture. He currently concentrates on print-making.

He died on 31 October 2015, at the age of 90.

Major awards 1955 – 1st Prize, Posters -10th Anniversary of the Polish People's Republic, PL 1956 – 1st Prize -Polish Olympic (Melbourne, AU) Poster Competition, PL 1959 – Tadeusz Trepkowski Prize, Warsaw, PL – 2nd Prize at "15 lat PRL" exhibit in Warsaw, PL 1961 – Award – Int'l Exhibition of Publishing Art (IBA) in Leipzig, Germany 1965 – 3rd Prize -Polish Poster Biennale, Katowice, PL 1973 – 2nd Prize -Polish Days Poster, Göttingen, Sweden 1979 – 1st Prize -International Tourismus -Borse, Berlin, Germany 1985 – "Best Poster of the Year", Warsaw's Best Poster Competition, Warsaw, PL

Major exhibitions include 1962 -Galerie in der Biberstrasse, Vienna, Austria 1965, 1967, 1971, 1975, 1985, 1987, 1989 –Polish Poster Biennales, Katowice, PL 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990 -International Poster Biennales, Warsaw, PL 1969, “Gallery of the Street”, Helsinki, Finland 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990 Poster Biennales, Brno, Czech Republic

Other exhibitions Washington D.C., USA (1964); Berlin, Germany (1973); Hanover, Germany (1978); Moscow, USSR (1990); Prague, Czech Republic (1990)

Important positions include Art Director, (1955–1964), WAG (Graphic Arts Publishers), state poster publisher, Warsaw, PL General Secretary, International Poster Biennale, Warsaw, PL (1986 – present) Professor, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, PL