The designer of monuments, an activist in the ZPAP, and winner, among other awards, of the Polish Order of Polonia Restituta.

He collaborated with the Society for the Promotion of Industry People (Towarzystwem Popierania Przemysłu Ludowego), and also began collecting Kurpian cutouts.

During World War II, two of his studios were destroyed - one in the Warsaw suburb of Powiśle and the other in the town of Brok.

Nike was a de facto merger of a private art gallery with an informal antique shop.

In 1949, Tchorek won a competition for the design of plaques commemorating public executions in Warsaw during World War II.

As the winner of a nationwide contest in 1948, Tchorek became the designer of plaques commemorating the places of execution during World War II in Warsaw.

In 1990, his studio at Smolna Street was entered in the register of monuments and his legacy is looked after by the Fundacja Tchorek-Bentall whose founder is the artist Katy Bentall, widow of Mariusz Tchorek, the son of the sculptor.