Designer · Poland · b. 1947
Andrzej Krauze
Andrzej Krauze (b. 1947) – Polish graphic artist, draughtsman and poster designer, graduate of Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts, London-based since c. 1980.
About the designer
- Lifetime
- b. 1947
- Country
- Poland
Andrzej Krauze was born in 1947. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (diploma 1973); his diploma animated film “The Flying Lesson” was censored. From 1971, he published drawings in “Szpilki”, and in 1974 became a cartoonist for the weekly “Kultura”. In 1971, he won first prize in the competition to design a poster for Hamlet at the National Theatre; he designed theatre posters until 1973.
Since around 1980, he has lived in London. His drawings have appeared in, among others, “The Guardian”, “New Statesman”, “The New York Times”, “The Independent on Sunday” and “The Times”. From 1986 to 1990, he designed posters for the London theatre Old Vic. In 1985, he was a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art.
He received, among others, first prize in Forte dei Marmi (1982), the Victoria and Albert Museum award for illustration (1996) and the Gloria Artis Medal (2017). His work has been shown, among others, at a retrospective in Tampere (1989), in Krakow (2002) and at the exhibition “The Flying Lesson” at Warsaw's Zachęta (2020). He is the brother of director Antoni Krauze.
