Maurycy Minkowski

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Maurycy Minkowski (1881-1930) was a Jewish Polish artist. At a young age he had an accident which left him deaf. In the early 20th Century, he was caught in the events of the Polish revolution and the pogroms of the era. He fled to western Europe eventually settling in Paris. He traveled extensively and died in Argentina when he was struck by a taxi he could not hear approaching.

Maurycy Minkowski