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Parsifal<\/b><\/i>\u00a0is a\u00a0music drama<\/a>\u00a0in three acts by the German composer\u00a0Richard Wagner<\/a>\u00a0and his last composition. Wagner’s own\u00a0libretto<\/a>\u00a0for the work is freely based on the 13th-century\u00a0Middle High German<\/a>\u00a0chivalric romance<\/a>\u00a0Parzival<\/a><\/i>\u00a0of the\u00a0Minnes\u00e4nger<\/a><\/i>\u00a0Wolfram von Eschenbach<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Old French<\/a>\u00a0chivalric romance<\/a>\u00a0Perceval ou le Conte du Graal<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by the 12th-century\u00a0trouv\u00e8re<\/a><\/i>\u00a0Chr\u00e9tien de Troyes<\/a>, recounting different accounts of the story of the\u00a0Arthurian<\/a>\u00a0knight Parzival (Percival<\/a>) and his spiritual quest for the\u00a0Holy Grail<\/a>. The poster artist Jan Lenica<\/strong> (1928-2001) was a Polish graphic designer and cartoonist. A graduate of the Architecture Department of Warsaw Polytechnic, Lenica became a poster illustrator and a collaborator on the early animation films of\u00a0 Walerian Borowczyk. Between 1963 and 1986 he lived and worked in France, and from 1987 he lived and worked in Berlin. In 1974 he lectured on poster art at Harvard University in Cambridge, USA. He was a professor of graphic, poster, animated cartoon for many years at German high schools and the first professor of the animation class at the University of Kassel, Germany, in 1979. Lenica’s work made one of the key chapters in the history of Polish art of the second half of the twentieth century. His fame and recognition in Poland as well as international acclaim was earned by his poster art and animated films, the two areas in which he was considered one of the world’s finest artists. He is regarded as a forerunner of modern animation.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":3729,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[37],"product_tag":[5062,5061,5078,5060,5041,5056,5063,5079],"class_list":{"0":"post-3728","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-theater","7":"product_tag-artwork","8":"product_tag-graphicart","9":"product_tag-janlenica","10":"product_tag-mrposter-com-vintageposters","11":"product_tag-polishposters","12":"product_tag-posterart","13":"product_tag-posterdesign","14":"product_tag-vintageposterart","15":"pa_artist-lenica-jan-1928-2001","16":"pa_director-author-richard-wagner","17":"pa_genre-theater","18":"pa_grading-mint","19":"pa_poster-country-of-origin-poland","20":"pa_poster-year-271","21":"pa_work-country-of-origin-germany","23":"first","24":"instock","25":"shipping-taxable","26":"purchasable","27":"product-type-simple","28":"czr-hentry"},"yoast_head":"\n