Name Waldemar Swierzy | Role Artist | |
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Died November 27, 2013, Warsaw, Poland Education Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts | ||
Swierzy, "First Gamble" Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph on Paper at Art and Coin TV
Waldemar Świerzy (c. 1931 – 27 November 2013) was a Polish artist.
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Life
Born in Katowice, Poland, he graduated from the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts in 1952. He was subsequently Professor in the University of Fine Arts in Poznań from 1965 and Professor in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1994.
In 1992 the government of Poland issued a postage stamp to honor one of his Cyrk posters, 'Clown with derby' in 1992. Swierzy is one of the Polish School of Posters' most prolific artists, having created over 2500 posters.
He employed unusual concepts with a variety of techniques, frequently mirroring Polish social history from 1950s through 1980s, with a myriad of styles: folk art from the 50s, pop art from the 60s, portraits from the 70s, and TV images from the 80s In addition, his Jazz Greats series of famous American jazz personalities became so well known that he reissued them in his later years as signed lithographs. The series includes: Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix, Charles Mingus and Charlie Parker, among others.
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Major Exhibitions
Member - Alliance Graphique International [AGI] since 1965.
