Oil on panel, 55 x 73 cm light new framed in a double frame, 81 x 64 cm; signed l.d. "Lurczyński"; on the reverse, in the artist's hand, his address in Paris.
Mieczyslaw Lurczynski (born December 14, 1907 in St. Petersburg, died 1992 in Paris) is a Polish writer, poet and painter working in exile in Paris after 1945. . Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Between 1930 and 1939 his paintings were exhibited in many Polish galleries, including the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw (1934, 1937). After the outbreak of hostilities, he joined the Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ) and then the Home Army, under the pseudonym Jan Kozlowski. In 1943 he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Warsaw's Pawiak prison, then sent by transport to Majdanek, where he was drafted into a labor commando. He was then transferred to the Buchenwald camp. In March 1945, during the evacuation of the camp, he escaped from the wagon and arrived in Hanover. At the urging of his painter friend Stanislaw Eleszkiewicz, he moved to Paris in 1949, where he lived and worked until his death.
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