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Original Polish theatre poster designed by Jerzy Czerniawski for Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters Looking For an Author / Szesc postaci szuka autora, 2007
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Berlin cabaret poster, 1920s.
“The idyllic gay portrait of dapper German officers in capes and peaked caps transfixed by demure Line-Boys (teenage male prostitutes that worked Berlin’s fancy hotel lobbies, gay clubs, and bars in the Tiergarten in gangs of 4 or 5) on Tiergarten benches disappeared from view in 1919. It was beggars who retained the combat dress of the defeated army. Berlin’s gay community at the beginning of Weimar adopted a different wardrobe, the sailor’s blouse and cap (alongside the tailored morning-coat of the perfumed dandy). In homosexual Dielen, middle-aged Sugar-Lickers (nighttime gay patrons), Coolies (older Gymnasium or university students who hired Line-Boys and frequently claimed to be straight), Doll-Boys (youngest and penniless gay hustlers that worked solely for food, lodging and cigarettes), even crotchety waiters wore the crisp blue-and-white insignia of jaunty marines on shore leave. The change of uniform had various meanings. Partly, it was a matter of identification - straights didn’t wear them - and they were a Wilhelmian echo of adolescent androgyny. More significantly, Berlin’s core homosexual community had expanded beyond the units of the Potsdam garrison.”
-Mel Gordon, Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin.
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Poster by Jan Lenica for Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play Wizyta Starszej Pani (The Visit), 1958
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Rene Magritte - Norine Advertisement Poster , c.1926
Magritte began designing posters and ads for Norine in 1924. Norine was run by a charismatic couple: the cultural and intellectual Paul-Gustave Van Hecke, who became a patron of Magritte’s art, and the grande couturière Honorine “Norine” Deschrijver. They established their couture business during World War I.
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Theatre poster for Jean Genet’s Die Zofen / The Maids designed by Franciszek Starowieyski, 1987
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Original Polish theatrical poster for Rozewicz’s Biale Malzenstwo (The White Marriage) designed by Wieslaw Walkuski, 2002
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Poster for Grand Guignol exhibition
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