Striking minimalist poster collage by Karel Teissig.

• title: Encounter with the Shadows | Schůzka se stíny | Czechoslovakia, 1982
• director: Jiří Svoboda
• with: Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jana Brejchová, Radovan Lukavský

poster designer: Karel Teissig, 1983

Poster is in A3 format (41.5 x 28.7 cm). Folded in the middle. Slight crease and tiny cracks on edges. Gentle folds in corners. Several soft spots and scratch marks visible across. Very nice condition.

Movie posters in our collection were promotional materials. Posters used on display in the cinemas across the former Czechoslovakia. They bear signs of their age.

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Karel Teissig was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic / poster designer. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1945-50) and at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (1948) and since early 60s became one of the most important figures of Czechoslovak poster design along with Karel Vaca and Zdeněk Ziegler. His imaginative posters are inspired by anything from collage / surreal art to illustration or photography and are undeniable among the best movie posters of the era. In 1961 his unique style won him a second prize for a poster titled The Possessors in the Toulouse-Lautrec Prize international film poster competition in Paris.

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