Plakacistki PRL-u – artystki (niemal) zapomniane
Female Posters Designers of the People’ Republic of Poland – Artists (Almost) Forgotten

Summary/Abstract: The paper is dedicated to Polish women artists involved in poster design during the People’s Republic of Poland, an area of graphic design still considered a male domain at the end of the 20th century. The text provides a brief overview of women’s activity in this discipline – from the situation of the first Polish female poster artists creating posters as design duos or advertising companies in the 1930s, through the artistic education and achievements of female poster designers during the communist era, to the turn of the 20th and 21st century, when a fundamental change in the status and perception of the work of Polish female designers occurred. The paper attempts to answer the question why the output of Polish female poster artists is very poorly represented in numerous studies devoted to the Polish poster of the 20th century and why in the case of married couples of artists involved (individually) in poster creation, recognition and prestige usually went to the man. Overlooking the role of women in this field is also evident in the contemporary discourse on the Polish poster art, notably in studies focused on the Polish Poster School which, almost exclusively, recognize the male representation in this phenomenon.

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