Vintage Polish Posters | Only A Spark | Waldemar Swierzy

This 1971 vintage Polish poster by Waldemar Swierzy is for the play “Iskra Tylko” (“Only A Spark”) by Zbigniew Jerzyna, winner of many literary awards. The poster artist Waldemar Swierzy was co-founder of the Polish School of Posters, and a professor of poster design at the Academies of Fine Arts in Poznan and Warsaw. He is the hero of one of the episodes of a series of documentary films presenting the profiles of Polish poster creators (title of the episode: Polnische Plakat Kunst. Waldemar Świerzy, 2008; author of the series: Robert Laus). This is the first part of a documentary series whose topic is the so-called Polish School of Posters. The film shows the protagonist working on a poster for the theater play Nanghar Khal .