The Great Annual Concert

Jerzy Gelbard (1894–1944), architect, painter, graphic designer, illustrator and exhibition designer. Studies in École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. He took part in preparing the Polish pavilion at the International Exhibition of Modern and Industrial Decorative Arts, held in 1925 in Paris. In the 1920s, he run an artistic advertising studio Plakat [Poster] together with a prominent graphic designer Tadeusz Gronowski (1894–1990) and Antoni Borman. The Atelier collaborated with the young generation of graphic designers and architects, among others with Jan Mucharski (1900–19810). In the years 1920–1939, Gelbard together with a known architect Roman Sigalin (1901–1940) run an architecture studio Biuro Projektów Jerzy Gelbard i Roman Sigalin – Architekci SARP , where they designed industrial buildings, modernist style houses and villas.

The poster comes from the early period of Gelbard's work. It announces a concert in the Warsaw Philharmonic, organized in 1918 by the Mutual Aid Society of the Warsaw Technical University. A baroque chubby cherub in contrapposto, leaning on a cello with a colourful parrot sitting on its right hand, invites us to attend the concert.