Marquez Garcia Gabriel- One Hundred Years of Solitude [Waldemar Swierzy].

Warsaw 1979/ PIW/ binding, hardback with wrapper/11.5x18.5cm/s.351/ very good condition

Graphic design by Waldemar Swierzy

Translated by Grazyna Grudzinska and Kalina Wojciechowska

Waldemar S wierzy (1931-2013) - poster designer, one of the most recognized graphic designers in Poland and abroad, co-founder of the Polish poster school, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. From 1965 he taught at the State Higher School of Visual Arts (since 1996 the Academy of Fine Arts) in Poznań. In 1994 he took over the poster studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Illustrator of books and designer of album covers, calendars and postage stamps. Author of wrappers for the publishing series "Contemporary World Prose" of PIW. He designed graphics for Polish pavilions at international fairs in: New York, Vienna, Beijing, Casablanca and Poznan. In the 1950s he worked at the Art and Graphic Publishing House. At the time, WAG was one of the main centers in Poland shaping the character of Polish poster art. Waldemar Swierzy's works can be found in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin, the Hermitage in Leningrad, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the National Museum in Poznan, the Poster Museum in Wilanow and others. [source: desamodern.pl].