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Maurycy Minkowski (1881/82, Warsaw – 23 November 1930, Buenos Aires) was a Polish painter of Jewish ancestry, best known for his genre scenes of daily life in the shtetls.

Biography

He was born to a wealthy family. An illness he had when he was a small child left him deaf and without speech.^[1] At the age of seven, he entered the "Institute for the Deaf [pl]" and showed an early talent for drawing, which encouraged his parents to pay for private lessons.

Maurycy Minkowski (), sometime known as Maurice Minkowski or Minkovski, was a Polish Jewish artist, born in Warsaw.

Maurycy Minkowski () was born to a wealthy, assimilated family in Warsaw.

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Maurycy Minkowski was a Polish painter of Jewish ancestry, best-known for his genre scenes of daily life in the shtetls.

Born in Warsaw in , Minkowski was a medal-winning graduate of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1901, he began his formal studies at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, where he was a student of Józef Mehoffer, Jan Stanisławski and Leon Wyczółkowski.^[1] He graduated in 1905 with a gold medal.

Having been informed of the pogroms taking place in Odessa, he went there to document the events with a series of drawings.^[1] After that, he made a study trip through Germany and Austria and returned to Warsaw.

He stayed for only a short time however, then went