Roman
Kramsztyk
Born
in Warsaw, Poland, (1885 - 1942)
| Roman Kramsztyk studied
art in Munich from 1904-1908.“For 30 years – from [his]debut in the Warsaw
Zachta [the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts] in 1909
up to 1939 – Kramsztyk was one of the most important participants in Polish
artistic life. Even though he was living in Paris since 1911 (with an interlude
during the years 1915-1922) and regularly presented his works at Salons:
des Independants, dutomne and des Tuilleries, he had never broken ties
with his homeland.”* Continuing to take part in Polish exhibitions, (i.e.
the First Exhibition of Polish Expressionists in Krakow, 1917; and the
Exhibition of Polish Legions in Lublin, 1917), Kramsztyk “… was co-founder
of the ‘Rytm’ Society of Polish Artists – one of the most important artistic
groups of the twenty years between the wars.”
In
1939 Kramsztyk’s mother died in Warsaw, where the war trapped him.In 1940
he moved into the Warsaw Ghetto, and on August 6, 1942 “… he was shot during
the so-called Grossaktion the operation liquidating the Warsaw Ghetto.”
*
In
1997, the Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw mounted a major retrospective
and published a complete catalogue of Kramsztyk’s works.
* Renata Piatkowska, Roman Kramsztyk, Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw, 1997. |
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