In 1932, while studying at the Kraków Academy, Levytskyi and several fellow students were banned from exhibiting their works at the annual student exhibition because of their social content. Several students were arrested, and Levytskyi together with Adam Franciszek Jazwiecki was expelled by decision of the Academy’s rector, Stanisław Osostowicz. In protest, the expelled students organized their own exhibition in the studio of Professor Fryderyk Pautsch. This gave rise to the progressive artistic association known as the “Kraków Group.”

During World War II, Levytskyi and his wife, Yevheniia Nadler, were evacuated to Uzbekistan. Upon returning to Lviv in 1946, Yevheniia sold her house in Chortkiv, and the couple purchased an apartment in Lviv. Today, their apartment at 10 Ustyyanovycha Street became the Levytskyi Memorial Museum.

Levytskyi’s creative legacy includes extensive experimentation with etching, linocut, lithography, and color monotype. He was a nonconformist in his artistic practice. Through his meaningful and stylistically unified prints, he revealed the breadth of his social and creative interests and demonstrated an exceptional graphic talent. His artistic heritage comprises more than 7,000 works, including graphic art, postcards, paintings, sculptures, as well as his photo archive, preserved in the collection of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv and in private collections.

He participated in exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad, though he never held a solo exhibition during his lifetime. The first solo exhibition was organized posthumously. Today, art and memorial museums dedicated to Leopold Levytskyi exist in Lviv and in Burdiakivtsi, his birthplace.