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Maurycy Gottlieb (sometimes Maurycego Gottlieba)
(1856–1879) was a Polish-Jewish painter. He
was born in Drohobycz, Galicia (Central
Europe)|Galicia.

At fifteen, he was enrolled at the Vienna Art
Academy. Later, he would study under Jan Matejko
in Krakow. However, he experienced anti-semitism
from his fellow students, and left Matejko's
studio after less than a year, returning to Vienna
to pursue his Jewish roots, having been raised
secular.


At twenty, he won a gold medal from a Munich art
competition for Shylock and Jessica (at left),
showing a scene from Shakespeare's The Merchant of
Venice. He painted the face for Jessica based on a
woman, Laura Rosenfeld, who he had proposed
marriage to.

However, Rosenfeld rejected his proposal, and wed
a Berlin banker. It is believed that he then
committed suicide by exposure to the elements,
dying of complications from a cold.

Despite the early age of his death, more than
three hundred of his works survive, though not all
are finished. After the fall of the Iron Curtain,
many Polish collections unknown in the West were
discovered, and his reputation grew greatly.

His brother, painter Leopold Gottlieb, was born
five years after his death.

==External link==
Commons|Maurycy Gottlieb
*http://eeweems.com/maurycy_gottlieb/ Biography of
Maurycy Gottlieb

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