Andre de Krayewski
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Andre de Krayewski (born June 20, 1933) is an artist and Polish expatriate currently residing in Newark, NJ. With a career that spans more than half a century, he continues to masterfully create paintings in his art-deco signature style and in pop art style. Andre de Krayewski is best known in his former country, for his famous Polish movie posters. He started his movie poster career in 1965. He has designed, sometimes up to a dozen, movie posters every year up until 1980. In 2005, deKrayewski made a comeback into the Polish poster scene with the Polish theater poster for "Valentine's Day". He wrote a novel in the late 2000s, Skyliner, titled after a Charlie Barnet hit, about trying to escape from under the Iron Curtain in the early 1950s.

In America, he was the official artist for the 1997 Panasonic Jazz Festival
Panasonic Jazz Festival
The Panasonic Jazz Festival is a summer music festival held every year in Greenwich Village in New York City....

 and painted the New York Film Academy
New York Film Academy
New York Film Academy - School of Film and Acting is a film school andacting school based in New York City, Universal City, California, USA and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. NYFA offers short-term film-making and acting courses, as well as one- and two-year conservatory and Master of Fine Arts...

 painting which can be seen on countless Academy posters (and in ads in publications) around the nation. He married actress and pianist Jadwiga Tyszka
Jadwiga Tyszka
Jadwiga Tyszka was an actress in theater, TV and film in Poland and a community activist in Newark, New Jersey. She was married to painter Andre de Krayewski and had two children.-References:...

in 1985, and the two emigrated to America.

He has won many awards, and his work is cherished and sought for by many art collectors worldwide.

His art can be viewed at his Online Gallery.
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