After completing his military service back home, he returned toLiège and regis- tered at the Académie des Beaux- Arts de la Ville, where he was awarded first prize for statuary art in 1933. The same year, he married Elisabeth Frenay and moved to Brussels. He took part in the design of the Romanian pavilion for the Exposition internationale uni- verselle in Brussels in 1935 and went on to hold a variety of exhibitions of his own in Brussels, Tel-Aviv, Paris, Amsterdam and several other cities. 1945 was the watershed year: lanchelevici obtained Belgian nationality, and his famous statue l'Appel ("The Call") was officially unveiled in La Louvière. 10 years later, lanchelevici was awarded a grant to work in the Belgian Congo, wherehe designed three statues intended to sup- plement thefamous Stanley-monument in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) and produced a number of outstanding drawings. He subsequently exhibited his work in countries throughout the world. His figures are expressive and powerful, witness Conspiration ("Conspiracy", 1932), a piece inspired by the working class struggles of the time, and the Monument national au prisonnier politique ("National Monument to the Politi- cal Prisoner") erected in Breendonk in 1954. His drawings are works of art in their own right, and not alwayssketches for his sculptures. In both disciplines, however, he draws on the same themes and strives for the same simplicity of form.