Roman Cieślewicz

Roman Cieślewicz ( born January 13, 1930 in Lwów, Poland, † 21 January 1996, Paris) was a Polish-French graphic designer and illustrator, poster artist and photographer.

Roman Cieślewicz studied art at the Art Academy Cracow, graduating in 1955. 1963 he moved to France, settled in Paris and became a French citizen in 1971.

He worked for many years as an illustrator or art director, for example, Elle (1965-1969) and the advertising agency MAFIA ( 1969-1972 ). He designed magazines for Opus International (1967-1969), Kitsch ( 1970-71 ) and CNAC -archives ( 1971-74 ). Since 1963 he has worked for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Hachette, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Festival d' Automne, Ketschum, the Galeries Lafayette and the Musée Picasso.

Cieślewicz participated in numerous international exhibitions. In 1964 he was invited to take part in the documenta III in Kassel.

Since 1975 he was a teacher at the Ecole Superieure d' Graphic Arts in Paris. He was a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale AGI.

He was husband of Alina Szapocznikow.

Literature and sources

• Documenta III. International Exhibition; Catalogue: Volume 1: Paintings and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand drawings; Industrial design, graphic; Kassel / Cologne 1964
• Literature by and about Roman Cieślewicz in the catalog that German national library