Maurycy Gottlieb, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maurycy Gottlieb

Polish painter and student of Jan Matejko

Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1856

Place of Birth: Drohobych, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 17-Jul-1879

Profession: painter

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Maurycy Gottlieb (Polish pronunciation ; February 21/28, 1856 – July 17, 1879) was a Polish Jewish realist painter of the Romantic period.
He was born in Drohobych to a wealthy, Yiddish and Polish-speaking orthodox Jewish family living in Galicia.
It was then part of the Austrian sector of Partitioned Poland, now Western Ukraine.
Considered one of the most talented students of Jan Matejko, Gottllieb died at the age of 23.