Jerzy Duda-Gracz

He graduated from the State Secondary School of Art Techniques in Częstochowa (current name: Jacek Malczewski Complex of Art Schools in Częstochowa, and then the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Faculty of Graphics at the branch in Katowice (now the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice), where he received a diploma in 1968, where he was an associate professor and academic teacher of painting and graphic art in 1976–1982. In 1992–2001 he taught at the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw, and later, until his death, worked at the K.Kieślowski University Radio and Television Department Śląski in Katowice.

The professor was described as an "insightful satirist" with an acute journalistic and moralizing program. His painting has always aroused strong emotions. By presenting people with caricatured deformed bodies and using legible symbols, he exposed human flaws - stupidity, intolerance, hypocrisy, rudeness, laziness, a blind fascination with money and American culture.

The artist died in 2004 in Łagów.