Graphic designer, book illustrator, caricaturist.
He was born on January 25, 1927, into an assimilated Jewish family; his father, Stanisław, was a doctor, and his mother, Cipora de Grovie, was from France. He was raised in Łódź, where he attended the secular Dr. Braude Hebrew High School. In 1940, he was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he collaborated with Janusz Korczak. During the so-called Grossaktion, on August 8, 1942, he lost his parents and brother. He managed to escape to the "Aryan" side thanks to the help of the Home Army. During the occupation, he studied architecture at clandestine classes at the Warsaw University of Technology. He was active in the Council for Aid to Jews "Żegota" and the resistance movement in the Warsaw Kedyw (Kedyw) and fought during the Warsaw Uprising in the Baszta Regiment Group under the pseudonym "Czart." After the war, he continued his architectural studies in Krakow and Warsaw. In 1948, he began two artistic collaborations: as a cartoonist for the weekly "Odrodzenie" and as a book illustrator for the "Czytelnik" Publishing Cooperative. From 1949 to 1957, he served as artistic director of the State Publishing Institute.
In 1957, he emigrated to France, where, with the help of his friend Jean Picard Le Doux, he began working as a graphic artist for Helena Rubinstein. Shortly thereafter, in 1959, at the request of Hubert Beuve-Méry, he became the official portraitist of members of the French Academy, and his work was published in "Le Monde." After 32 years of work for that magazine, the French National Library organized an exhibition of his work from 1959 to 1991. He illustrated editions of works by, among others, Pushkin, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Camus, Maurois, and Cesbron for Editions "Bibliophile," and for Cabinet Cosmopolite, published by the Singer brothers and Stock. In 1980, together with Eugene Ionesco, he founded the Comité des Intellectuels pour l'Europe des Libertés. He is the subject of the documentary "I Saw It..." (1993), directed by Ewa Lachnit. He was awarded the French Order of Arts and Letters, the Cross of Merit, the Silver Medal of the City of Paris, the Home Army Cross, and the Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta. He died on September 14, 2004, in Paris.
