Mikhail O. Dlugach [1893-1988] was a prolific Ukrainian poster artist and graphic designer. He was born in Kiev in 1893 and received his artistic training at the local art school where he studied from 1905 to 1917. In 1922 he moved to Moscow and started working as a film poster designer, soon becoming one of the leading artists in the field. In 1924 he joined the advertising department of the newly-established Reklam Film. The following year he produced his first film poster Brigand Arsen. The trial proved successful and was rapidly followed by those for Red Devil, Kabiriya, and At the Pillory.
In 1926 Dlugach joined AKhRR (The Association of the Artists of the Revolution), a union of artists who advocated realism in art. In his distinctive designs the figures of film actors were skillfully drawn and arranged on the poster plane into mises-en-scènes from the advertised films. In 1931 Dlugach also became a member of ORRP (The Association of Revolutionary Poster Artists). In 1940 he helped to design the exhibition pavilion at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow.
Dlugach continued to produce posters through the 1960s, executing over 500 during his career. His film posters of the 1920s and later established his place as a master of poster art. For this work he was officially recognized with the mounting of a major one-person retrospective in Moscow in 1985. Dlugach died in 1988 at the age of 95. His works are in the collections of major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate, London; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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