Waldemar Świerzy: 1931-2013

Waldemar Świerzy passed away on November 26. An award-winning poster designer, he graduated from the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts in 1952. He had subsequently been Professor in the University of Fine Arts in Poznań from 1965, and Professor in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1994.

Examples of his work are held in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Kunstbibliothek in Berlin, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the National Museum in Poznan, the Poster Museum, and many others.