Jan Ślusarczyk was a Polish sculptor, ceramist, painter and educator, and a professor at the Warszawa Academy of Fine Arts. After school, he initially worked in the local administration office. From 1926, he studied at the School of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warszawa. Due to the outbreak of war he was not able to work as a sculptor before 1945 and became a member of the Association of Polish Visual Artists. Ślusarczyk later became an administrator in various artists’ associations and cultural institutions in Warszawa. Among other things, he created numerous monuments for the Army. In Egypt he was also active as a conservator.