FINN NYGAARD - POSTER
Finn Nygaard is one of Denmark's most highly renowned graphic artists. His early contact with the creative work of Poland's Waldemar Swierzy and the Polish poster school spawned the main thrust of his interests - i.e., that of poster art. The posters in Nygaard's oeuvre now number more than 200. The exhibition of his work that recently opened in cooperation with the Polish National Museum in Poznan was earlier presented as part of our Denmark in the Castle 2003 project. It may now be seen from April 23 to May 15 at the City of Lodz Historical Museum (Palac Poznanskich) on 15 Ogrodowa Street.
Finn
Nygaard, born in 1955 in Aarhus, Denmark, is one of the most outstanding Danish
poster artists and designers. He studied at the School of Commercial Art in
Aarhus. From the very beginning of his professional career he focused on graphic
design, specifically on poster design, graphic symbols, typography, and corporate
identity programs. His early contact with the creative work of Poland's Waldemar
Swierzy and the Polish poster school spawned the main thrust of his interests
- i.e., that of poster art. The posters in Nygaard's oeuvre now number more
than 200. In 1979 Nygaard founded his own design studio in Aarhus: Finn Nygaard
Graphic Design. Since 1992 he has also run the Copenhagen studio Finn Nygaard
Graphic Design Office. From 1990 to 1995 he belonged to the renowned artistic
group Eleven Danes Design, and he remains a member of Denmark's Association
of Designers (MDD) and the Alliance Graphique Internationale. His posters are
included in museum collections the world over, if only to mention Germany's
Poster Museum in Emmerich, the Israeli Museum in Jerusalem, the Modern Art
Gallery in Petersburg, Japan's Ogaki Poster Museum, Australia's Nick Vokovic
Collection, and Poland's Poster Museum in Wilanow and the National Museum in
Poznan. Nygaard has participated in a wide range of expositions and competitions
in Denmark and abroad (i.a., in Finland, Japan, Germany, the US, Switzerland,
France, Mexico, and Australia). He has been a regular presence at Poland's
biennial poster exhibitions in Wilanow (1986, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1996). Nygaard
is the recipient of numerous awards in the field of posters and design, for
instance in the competition for the Danish poster of the year (1990, 1991,
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002) and in the The Donside Graphic Design Awards (1995,
1997, 2000). Nygaard is an active lecturer, as well as examiner, at many art
schools in Denmark. He has served on the jury of several international poster
and design competitions, among them The Donside Graphic Design Awards in London
(1997) and the International Poster Triennial in Trnava, Slovakia (2003).
The commissioner of the exhibition of Finn Nygaard's posters is Anna Grabowska, who hails from the Poster and Design Gallery MN in Poznan. The exhibition is accompanied by a monographic catalogue jointly prepared with the National Museum in Poznan.