for inviting us to her cosy little “showroom” and for taking such a beautiful care of two lovely movie posters from our archive. They look magnificent in their new surrounding and such a good combination, too. Two phenomenal, possibly most prolific poster designers of the time, both with full bag of poster awards and hundreds of poster designs in portfolio. We can be only astonished by amount/inventivness/variety of their work. While Zdeněk Ziegler was very much attached to graphic design, Karel Vaca was attracted to fine art, specially to abstract painting. Each of them influenced many and helped a lot with introducing Czechoslovak poster design internationally.
Zdeněk Ziegler’s poster design for The Wizz consists of only typeface, combination of Good Vibrations and Manuscript Caps (out of interest please, see also his Flashdance poster). It is excellent example of how far he would go when designing movie posters, truly fascinating. No words to what Karel Vaca did to Mona Lisa either :), such an intriguing, humorous artwork. It was possibly the first 60s Vaca’s poster we were holding in our hands few years back, it is deeply engraved on mind ever since. Karel Vaca was playing all over, nothing was sacred to him and most of the time one just stay speechless observing his art.
Most adorable, thank you so much for showing them to us!
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Please explore poster artwork of Karel Vaca / Zdeněk Ziegler in chronological order.
For all the information on typeface we thank to FONTS IN USE archive.
Proud Princess, Unknown Artist, 1973 / Little Shepherds, Olga Čivrná, 1973Gold Fishes, Miloslav Disman, 1977 / Last Bad Mark, Stanislav Duda, 1980Ali-Baba and the Forty Thieves, Stanislav Duda, 1981 / Faces in the Darkness, Josef Duchoň, 1973.View from the Loft, Martin Dyrynk, 1979 / Pilot Pirx’s Inquest, Martin Dyrynk, 1980The Lost Expedition, Jaroslav Fišer, 1977 / The Black Sword, Dobroslav Foll, 1978Proud Princess, Dobroslav Foll, 1973 / two versionsTelltales, Milan Grygar, 1961 / Chasing the Cat, Milan Grygar, 1980The Field Overgrown with Thorn Bushes, Milan Grygar, 1980 / How a Man Gives Birth, Milan Grygar, 1980Matthew, why do girls not want you?, Milan Grygar, 1981 / Troops and Aliens, Milan Grygar, 1982.The Good Light movie poster by Milan Grygar, 1986.The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, Milan Grygar, 1982 / The Good Light, Milan Grygar, 1986The Bet, Eva Hašková, 1976 / Arabian Adventure, Eva Heřmanská, 1980Chinatown movie poster designed by Miroslav Hlaváček, 1976.Chinatown, Miroslav Hlaváček, 1976 / Too Skinny For Love, Jan Hlavatý, 1974Arnold movie poster by Vratislav Hlavatý, 1976.Arnold, Vratislav Hlavatý, 1976 / Concert, Vratislav Hlavatý, 1981The Snow Queen, Vratislav Hlavatý, 1985 / The Other Woman, Vratislav Hlavatý, 1981The Enchanted Dollars, Vratislav Hlavatý, 1986 / The Three Musketeers, Clara Istlerová, 1976Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams Alexej Jaroš, 1974 / During One Night, Alexej Jaroš, 1974.The Phantom on Horseback, Alexej Jaroš, 1977 / Hostages in Bella Vista, Alexej Jaroš, 1980The Man, Dimitrij Kadrnožka, 1976 / Metello, Karel Machálek, 1970The Big Bus, Jan Meisner, 1978 / I’m Loosing My Temper – Lucky Pierre, H. Michalíková, 1979A Short Life, Z. Mináčová, D. Bleyová, V. Polák, 1976 / Woman in Every Room, Vasil Miovský, 1974Croupier Freddy, Karel Míšek, 1983 / The Strange Duel, Miroslav Němeček, 1971Friends of the Bermuda Triangle, Novotná, 1987 / Oldřich a Božena, Jaroslav Sůra, 1985Operation Monster, Vladimír Václav Paleček, 1977 / The Magician, Veronika Palečková, 1987Very Important Person, Petr Poš, 1985 / The Great Kidnapping, Milan Skoch, 1977BIrds of Pray, Antonin Sladek, 1976 / The Valley of the Bees, Jiří Svoboda, 1968She Dropped from the Clouds, Břetislav Šebek, 1961 / Uncle Cyril, Karel Teissig, 1989Wild Horses, Štefan Theisz, 1985 / Winning Quietly, Jan Tománek, 1984Lynx Hits the Trail, Karel Vaca, 1984 / Anne, Jane’s Sister, Karel Vaca, 1975Kidnapping the Moravanka Brass Band, Karel Vaca, 1983 / For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now, Karel Vaca, 1983How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor, Karel Vaca, 1977 / Robinson Girl, Karel Vaca, 1974Repentance, Zdeněk Vlach, 1987 / Infidelity Slovak Style, Milan Veselý, 1981Robinson Crusoe movie poster by Zdeněk Vlach, 1985.Robinson Crusoe, Zdeněk Vlach, 1985 / Men’s Summer, Zdeněk Vlach, 1976 AWARDEDThe Elixirs of the Devil, Josef Vyleťal, 1973 / The Trygon Factor, Josef Vyleťal, 1966Sleeping Beauty, Josef Vyleťal, 1971 / Dmitriy Kantemir, Josef Vyleťal, 1974Naked Childhood, Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová, 1969 / Dirty Hands, Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová, 1977The Last Train, Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová, 1982 / Thank You, Ratili, Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová, 1983Two on Horseback, One on a Donkey, Jan Weber, 1986 / Holiday with Minka, Jaroslav Zelenka, 1963Behind the Scenes at Pacific Hotel, Zdeněk Ziegler, 1975 / The Death of Talented Cobbler, Zdeněk Ziegler and Jan Vachuda, 1982The Day of the Jackal, Zdeněk Ziegler, 1974 / The Sky Under, Zdeněk Ziegler, 1983Smoke on the Potato Fields, Zdeněk Ziegler, 1976 / The Lesson, Zdeněk Ziegler, 1971
