Roman Kramsztyk (1885-1942)
Painter, illustrator, member of the elite Group of Five. One of the most recognizable Polish artists in Poland and abroad, he was born on August 16, 1885, in Warsaw, into an assimilated Jewish family. The son of Paulina née Fajans and pediatrician and social activist Julian Kramsztyk, he was the maternal grandson of photographer and lithographer Maksymilian Fajans, brother of Maurycy, a renowned entrepreneur and industrial pioneer in the Kingdom of Poland, and on his father's side, the grandson of a famous preacher and graduate of […]