born 3 November 1898, Będzin
died May 1945, Mauthausen (Austria)
lived in Będzin, at Kołłątaja Street at no. 37
painter
Since 1916 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, while continuing his education in high school. From 1920 he continued education in graphics and typography at the School of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg. In 1921 he returned to the Academy of Fine Arts, in 1923 he moved to the Central School of Painting and in 1924 he went to study in Paris on a scholarchip. He exhibited his first works in 1924.
From 1925 to 1926 he worked on mural paintings decorating the Będzin synagogue. In 1932 after he had gotten married, he became an art teacher in Fürstenberg’s high school. In 1936 he immigrated to Palestine, where, despite living in poverty, he continued painting and exhibiting. When his paintings burned in an apartment fire, he returned to Poland.
During World War II, despite having a Honduras passport, in August 1943 he was deported to Birkenau, then to Mauthausen. When on the eve of the liberation he received the news of the death of his family he swallowed a capsule of poison, placed by his wife in his tooth.
He painted mostly oil paintings and watercolors on Jewish motifs. To this day approx. 70 works have survived, most of which are in the collections of the Zagłębie Museum in Będzin.