first years in Sweden he could not get documents from Poland to certify his true identity. Therefore, he used his false name Jerzy Luczak as his artist name. Even after he had been granted a Swedish citizenship under his real birth name in 1954, he continued to sign his works J. Luczak. It was not until the mid-1960s that he began to sign with both surnames. In 1950 Jerzy Luczak-Szewczyk married Swedish-born Inga Johansson in Örebro. Career and exhibitions Jerzy Luczak-Szewczyk worked mainly in oil painting, but he also used other media, such as drawing, stucco, sculpture and mosaic. Between his first Swedish exhibition in 1946 in Eskilstuna and his last in 1962 in Örebro, he had several exhibitions of his own and participated in group exhibitions. During the 1950s he also carried out decorations on public and private owned buildings, especially mural paintings and reliefs. In the beginning of his career, Luczak's subjects were illustrations of his memories from the war, still lifes, portraits and landscapes. His paintings varied in quality, but he continued to work and to develop his skills. The paintings from the 1950s, especially his city scenes and landscapes, show that he gradually went from a style inspired by Cézanne, to an increasingly freer and personal way of expression. Luczak's travels in Europe in the early 1960s, led to a radical change in his style. Instead of using brushes and palette knives, he started to paint with his hands on the canvas. Initially the subjects still were figurative compositions but from the middle of the decade he created surrealistic, expressive images of dramatic landscapes, populated by fantasy figures, fish and animals. The paintings were large, performed in a personal impasto technique and often in darkish colour tones. During his travels in Europe Luczak visited museums and art galleries. He also introduced himself to gallery owners. An exhibition at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris in 1965 led to positive reviews both in French and Swedish newspapers. This resulted in further exhibitions for example in Paris (Galerie Mouffe 1970), Biarritz (Galerie Vallombreuse 1970), New York (Galerie Internationale 1970) and in London (B. H. Corner Gallery 1971). Jerzy Luczak-Szewczyk died 12 April 1975 in Örebro, Sweden. In 1970 he was appointed honorary member with silver medal of the Accademia Internazionale Tommaso Campanella in Rome. He is represented in Swedish private and public collections and in private collections in France,