Karel Teissig’s fabulous collage poster design for ’70s Italian comedy.

• title: Traffic Jam | L’ingorgo | Silnice Řím-Neapol neprůjezdná! | Italy, 1979
• director: Luigi Comencini
• with: Alberto Sordi, Annie Girardot, Fernando Rey

poster design: Karel Teissig, 1981

Karel Teissig was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic / poster designer. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1945-50) at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (1948) and since early 60s became one of the most important figures of Czechoslovak poster design. His imaginative posters are inspired by anything from collage / surreal art to illustration or photography and they undeniable belong to the best movie posters of the era. In 1961 his unique style won him a second prize for a poster titled The Possessors in the Toulouse-Lautrec Prize international film poster competition in Paris.

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Movie posters in our collection were promotional materials. Posters used on display in the cinemas across the former Czechoslovakia. They bear signs of their age.

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