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Author of a poster for the film Une femme douce (1970, France) directed by Robert Bresson, painter and graphic artist Olga Polačkova-Vyleťalova was born on August 8th, 1944 in Hradec Kralové. She took a course of private studies with leading Czech textile artist Antonín Kybal (1963) and finished studies at an art school (1968) and Prague's Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (1968-69; Karel Svolinský).
The author of an overall seventy-six film posters (1969-89), Polačkova-Vyleťalova has been exhibiting her works at collective (since 1974) and solo (since 1980) shows. Her design of the Une femme douce poster became an icon of the Czechoslovak film poster art. A poetic harmony, dreamy lightness and imagination are the typical features of all of her works.
Her film posters won a number of prestigious international awards, such as the Cannes International Film Festival 1973 - Grand Prix for the Best Poster (Une femme douce); Cannes International Film Festival 1974 - International Critic's Prize (Mladí a laska, Youth and Love in English); Chicago International Film Festival 1979 - Gold Hugo (Zrcadlení, Mirroring in English).
Olga Polačkova-Vyleťalova's latest exhibition of film posters was the 2008 sole event at Prague's cinema Světozor.
Olga's husband Josef Vyleťal (1940, Brno - 1989, Prague), painter, graphic, stage and film artist, died as a 49-year-old master of classical, verist surrealism. Like his wife, Vyleťal also created film posters. The drawing on the FDC, dedicated to the art of film posters, features one of his works.
Author of a poster for the film Markéta Lazarova (1966, Czechoslovakia) directed by František Vlačil, graphic designer and typographer Zdeněk Ziegler was born on October 27th, 1932 in Prague.
As a student of architecture at Prague's Czech Technical University, he started his career as a graphic designer and typographer creating his first, mainly advertising pieces, followed with book designs and film posters in the early 1960s. He contributed to a number of leading Czech publishers, such as SNKLU, later Odeon, Československý spisovatel, later Český spisovatel, Svoboda, Mlada fronta, Avicenum, designing hundreds of individual books and a number of book series. As a book designer, he used a purely typographic approach (works for the publishers Vahy or Brody in the late 1960s) on the one hand, or he approached the book wrapper as an empty space to be filled in with a montage or collage of paintings on the other hand. He used the latter process in most of his posters.
Ziegler's first film poster Křik (The Cry) appeared in 1962, his works after 1962 included also book wrappers and graphic designs. He authored some three hundred film, exhibition and theatre posters, designed a number of sleeves for gramophone records, logos, and created a corporate identity image for the publisher Brody (in the 1990s, apart from his designs of individual books and book series) and Prague's Czech Museum of Fine Arts. The typhographic construction of books published by Aulos is one of Ziegler's most sophisticated projects, combining a purely typographic solution with the graphic impression of the book as a whole. Ziegler is a member (since 1984) of the Czech Graphic Designer Association Typo (renamed to TypoDesignClub in 1996) and of the Association Graphique Internationale. He is the holder of many national Most Beautiful Book Design Awards, two international awards for books published by Aulos, the Chicago International Film Festival 1978 Gold Hugo for the Best Poster. He exhibited his typographic works at a number of prestigious international shows and published in a number of magazines, such as Japan's Idea, Graphis, Typografia, Font, TypoDesignClub 1996-2001 annual publications. Ziegler's works after 1990 include graphic designs for the Za branou theatre, Prague's National Theatre, Prague's National Gallery, Prague's Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague's Jewish Museum (logo), Prague's Museum of Fine Arts (corporate identity image).
Ziegler is the author of a number of postage stamps and member of the Czech Post's Stamp Graphic Design Board.
