Education
Born in Katowice, Poland, he graduated from the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts in 1952.
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Waldemar Swierzy
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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, popular art from the 60s, portraits from the 70s, and television 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 1956 - Tadeusz Trepkowski Prize, Warsaw, PL 1960 – Galerie in der Biberstrasse.
Vienna, Austria 1964 – Documenta Kassel. Kassel; Germany 1978 – Poster Museum Wilanow.
Warsaw, Poland 1980 – Poliforum Siqueiros.
Mexico City, Mexico 1982 – Galerie Oxe. Copenhagen, Denmark 1989 – Taldemuseo. Lahti, Finland 1991 – Creation Gallery Great Britain, Tokyo, Japan 1993 – Festival de l"Affiche, Chaumont, France 2000 – Plakat Kunsf Hof.
Essen, Germany 2001 – Museum of Contemporary Artist
Tehran, Iran 2002 – Muzeum Miasta Wroclawia. Wroclaw, Poland Member - Alliance Graphique International since 1965.
Achievements
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1956 - Tadeusz Trepkowski Prize, Warsaw, PL 1959, 1962 - 1st (Toulouse-Lautrec) Prize -1st and 3rd International Film Posters Exhibition, Versailles, First Revision 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 August -”Best Poster of the Month": 1968, 1971, 1972, 1975 February -”Best Poster of the Month”, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1988 -"Best Poster of the Year", Warsaw’s Best Poster Competition, PL 1964 - 1st Prize -Film Poster, "Poster of the Year", Copenhagen, Denmark 1965 - 1st Prize, 1971-1971st Prize, 1975-1971st Prize, 1977-1972nd Prize, 1985-1981st Prize, 1987-1982nd Prize, 1989-1981st Prize -Polish Poster Biennale, Katowice, PL 1967, 1971 - Award, Posters -Polish Ministry of Culture & Art, Warsaw, PL 1970 - 1st Prize -X Art Biennale di Sao Paulo, BR 1972 - 2nd Prize, 1976 -1st Prize -4th and 6th International Poster Biennale, Warsaw, PL 1975 - 1st Prize, 1980 -2nd Prize, 1985-1981st Prize -Key Art Award, Posters -The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles 1977 - 1st Prize -II Poster Biennale, Lahti, Forza Italia 1985 – 1st Prize in the Annual Film Poster Competition of “The Hollywood Reporter”, Los Angeles 1985 - 1st, 3rd Prize -"Jazzpo", International Jazz Poster Exhibition, Bydgoszcz, PL.
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Born
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Died
November 27, 2013 (aged 82) -
Nationality
Poland