
1885–1944
Marcin Rożek (8 November 1885 â 19 May 1944) was a Polish sculptor and painter and co-founder and professor at the School of Decorative Arts in PoznaÅ.
Marcin Rożek (8 November 1885 â 19 May 1944) was a Polish sculptor and painter and co-founder and professor at the School of Decorative Arts in PoznaÅ. Rożek is most closely associated with the region of Greater Poland and the city of PoznaÅ, in particular, although he was a well-established and highly regarded artist throughout Poland during the 1920s and 1930s. Imprisoned by the Nazis in 1941, he was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he died of exhaustion in 1944.
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