Rafał Olbinski Painter Poland 1943

Support Rafał Olbiński is a Polish-born illustrator, painter and educator, living in the United States. Olbiński graduated from the architecture program of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1969. Olbiński immigrated to the United States in 1981, where he soon established himself as a prominent painter, illustrator and designer. Olbiński’s work is very similar to the work of the famous Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte; Olbiński describes his approach to painting and illustrating as “poetic surrealism“. He has cited his influences as “everybody“, specifically Saul Steinberg, Milton Glaser, Marshall Arisman and Brad Holland. Rafal Olbiński’s works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (Poster Collection), the Carnegie Foundation in New York, National Arts Club in New York, the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress in Washington