Mieczyslaw Lurczynski - Artist Info

About Mieczyslaw Lurczynski

  • Biography

    Mieczyslaw Lurczynski (born in 1907 in St. Petersburg, died 1992 in Paris) - Polish writer, poet and painter, he created his artwork after 1945 in exile.

    He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and made his debut in 1936 in "Kameny". After the outbreak of hostilities, he joined the ZWZ and then to the Home Army. After being arrested, he was imprisoned in the Pawiak prison in Warsaw, and then sent by transport to Majdanek, where he was drafted into a work commando.


    He was then transferred to the Buchenwald camp, from which he escaped and reached the front. After 1945 he remained in exile, settled in Hannover, where he co-founded the publishing house of the Forced Exile Association.


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