Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg, who were relatively forgotten until a major retrospective at the MoMA in 1997. The brothers created more than 300 cinema posters in the decade before Georgii’s death in 1933.
Born in 1899 and 1900 respectively, Vladimir and Georgii both studied engineering and fine arts at Stroganoff School of Applied Art. They began working as sculptors, architects and designed railway carriages and theatre sets, among other things, before going on to design hundreds of cinema posters for films, from documentaries to Buster Keaton comedies.
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