Waldemar Swierzy is a polish designer and professor. He was born on September 9th, 1931 in Katowice.

He studied at the academy of fine arts in Cracow and then became the head of the design studio at the higher school of fine arts in Poznan. After this he was the chairman of the international poster biennial and the head of the poster studio in Warsaw. Aside from his professional design career he also lectured at many universities (Culture.Pl,n.d).

He is most known for his poster work. He was won many awards such as the Grand Prix Toulouse-Lautrec award for his poster the Red Inn or Czerwona Oberża as shown below.

Swierzy has created over 1500 posters in his career for films, records, and icons in pop culture. His poster work was extremely successful, the Mazowsze poster for example has been printed over a million times.

As his career developed so did his techniques on his posters. He developed a painting-like style. He had a fluid expression in his work that was easily identifiable. He then moved on to following art nouveau and gestural influences in his work.

His portraiture work was where he made a big name for himself. The hyperrealism combined with his personal flair developed into the style that is is most associated with. He designed over 250 portraits though his career. A lot of these pieces were for record sleeves or printed posters. He used a combination of mash-ups of different elements and colors to create his expressionistic style.

Images from:https://culture.pl/en/artist/waldemar-swierzy

Culture.pl. 2022. Waldemar Świerzy. [online] Available at: <https://culture.pl/en/artist/waldemar-swierzy> [Accessed 17 February 2022].