Waldemar Świerzy (c. 1931 – 27 November 2013) was a Polish artist.
[1] Born in Katowice, Poland, he graduated from the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts in 1952.
[2] In 1992 the government of Poland issued a postage stamp to honor one of his Cyrk posters, 'Clown with derby'.
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.
The first group, which came out in March 2003, were of Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, Benny Goodman, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie.