Narocz. Youth Sailing Camp / promotion

Bolesław Surałło-Gajduczeni (1906–1939), painter, graphic designer, interior designer, film and theatre stage designer. Studied in the Urban School of Decorative Arts and Painting [Miejska Szkoła Sztuk Zdobniczych i Malarstwa] in Warsaw and in the School of Fine Arts, being one of the first students of the prominent graphic designer Edmund Bartłomiejczyk (1885–1950). From1936, he coordinated workshops in the Public School of Graphic Industry [Państwowa Szkoła Przemysłu Graficznego] in Warsaw, educating printers and lithographers who, due to Surałło's classes, got acquainted with the principles of poster composition and design. In 1937, he founded an artistic graphic design studio AGAR. Surałło-Gajduczeni died tragically in Lublin during the first days of the war - while transferring Jan Matejko's painting The Battle of Grunwald [Bitwa pod Grunwaldem]. Most of artist's heritage got destroyed.

The poster advertising the Youth Sailing Camp at the Narocz lake was commissioned by the Maritime and Colonial League (Polish: Liga Morska i Kolonialna), with which Surałło-Gajduczeni collaborated. The layout, composed of simplified elements, represents a picturesque lake landscape, inviting the young audience to spend their vacation actively.