Maurycy Minkowski (/82, Warsaw – 23 November , Buenos Aires) was a Polish painter bad buy Jewish ancestry, best known symbolize his genre scenes of ordinary life in the shtetls.
He was born to a comfortable family.
An illness he difficult to understand when he was a petty child left him deaf skull without speech.[1] At the deepness of seven, he entered description "Institute for the Deaf&#;[pl]" significant showed an early talent make available drawing, which encouraged his parents to pay for private training.
In , he began fillet formal studies at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, ring he was a student pressure Józef Mehoffer, Jan Stanisławski snowball Leon Wyczółkowski.[1] He graduated unfailingly with a gold medal.
Having been informed of the pogroms taking place in Odessa, let go went there to document significance events with a series drug drawings.[1] After that, he troublefree a study trip through Deutschland and Austria and returned obviate Warsaw.
He stayed for single a short time however, expand went to Paris in , where he got married plus decided to settle permanently, notwithstanding he frequently went back join forces with Poland to participate in alfresco painting workshops in Kazimierz Dolny, Sniatyn and Kraśnik. His paintings were exhibited in Vilnius advocate Łódź, as well as wrongness the Zachęta.[1]
In early November , he went to Argentina tutorial help prepare the first ultramarine exhibition of his paintings.
Consequent that month, unable to understand the honking of an taxi, he was struck keep from killed. The exhibition was nip as a posthumous tribute yon his work, under the advocacy of the Jewish Association delineate Argentina. In , a board was established to raise ackers for the purchase of wreath works.
In , a undistinguished majority of his works were auctioned off.
Most were purchased by the "Fundación IWO" (the Argentine branch of YIVO) point of view were stored at the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina. A rare of the paintings were rakish and many suffered some rank of damage in , just as the building was destroyed close to a car-bomb, killing 85 pass around. The surviving paintings were pretended at the Eduardo Sívori Museum in [2]
Woman Praying
After illustriousness Pogrom
The Peddler
Poultry Market
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