Julian Palka 1923 Poznan (PL) - 2002.06.20 Warsaw (PL) Photo from J. Mroszczak, Polnische Plakat Kunst (1962)

1955, Les enfants du paradis, french film by Marcel Carne

1953, Roma Ore 11, italian film by Giuseppe de Santis ( original black and white version of the poster )

Julian Palka, a leading figure of the polish school of posters of the 1950's has died in Warsaw (PL) after a long illness. Graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1951, he later became a colleague of Henryk Tomaszewski at the same school. He won a gold medal at the International Poster Biennale Warsaw in 1968 for a poster in memory of the victims of the Auschwitz concentration camps, and was a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale AGI. ( information from Zdzislaw Schubert )

Links

An obituary from the Polish Embassy in Madrid
Julian Palka posters at the "Art of Poster Gallery"