Western movie poster designed by Jan Meisner.

• title: Kingdom of the Silver Lion | Im Reiche des silbernen Löwen | V říši stříbrného lva | Germany, Spain, 1965
• director: Franz Josef Gottlieb
• with: Lex Barker, Marie Versini, Ralf Wolter
• writer: Karl May

poster design: Jan Meisner, 1978

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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Jan Meisner is a Slovak artist, typographer, illustrator and graphic designer. He is living in Zlín, Czech Republic where he has been teaching (with a short break) at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications at the University of Thomas Bata since 1996. Jan Meisner studied at the at the School of Applied Arts, Prague (1960 – 1967) and became one of the most prominent Slovak movie poster designers.  He created over 40 beautiful movie posters. Meisner’s free use of various art techniques such as collage, drawing or photograph helps him to create powerful visual unity between the movie and the poster.

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western movie posters designed in Czechoslovakia.

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1970s posters available in our poster archive.

 

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