 However, his important work during the period 1954 to 1961 was the illustration of a large number of film posters, of which the poster from 1959 for the anti-war film "The Bridge" ("Die Brücke") is considered to be his most notable work.He died of a heart attack in 1980, 67 years old.In 2003, his two sons Peter and Holger Ellgaard donated a large part of his works to the "Haus der Geschichte" in Bonn.