It is with sadness that we say goodbye to Andrzej Heidrich, graphic artist and illustrator, author of Polish banknotes and stamps, among other things. The artist died on Sunday, October 20.
Andrzej Heidrich was born in 1928 in Warsaw and studied there at the Private Coeducational Common School "Military Family", the Graphic Gymnasium and the High School of Fine Arts. During World War II, he gained knowledge at secret classes and was a member of the Grey Ranks. After the war, in 1954, he defended his diploma thesis at the Graphic Arts Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, the subject of which was illustrations to Molière's play "The Miser" "The Miser".
For about 40 years, until 1990, the artist worked with the Publishing Cooperative "Czytelnik", designing, among other things, covers and illustrations of books by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Ryszard Kapuściński and Leszek Kołakowski, and from 1974 he was the chief graphic designer of the publishing house. In the same year the first banknote of his authorship entered into circulation.
