to marry Lola Rosengarten, but when he heard about Rosenfeld's marriage, he knowingly exposed himself to the elements, dying of complications from a cold and sore throat. Despite his premature death at the age of 23, more than three hundred of his works survive (mostly sketches, but also oil paintings), though not all are finished. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, many Polish collections unknown in the Western Bloc were popularized, and his reputation grew greatly. His brother, Leopold Gottlieb, was born five years after his death and became known as a painter as an adult. Gallery Notes References Nehama Guralnik: In the Flower of Youth: Maurycy Gottlieb. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Dvir Publishers, 1991. Jerzy Malinowski: Maurycy Gottlieb. Arkady, Warsaw (1997), Ezra Mendelsohn: Painting a people: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art. Brandeis University Press, Hanover, New Hampshire; (2002) External links Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, in Poem for Rent project. Głowa starca – oil painting by Gottlieb in Central Jewish Library 19th-century Polish painters 19th-century Polish male artists Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) Polish painters of Jewish descent Jewish painters Artists from Kraków 1856 births 1879 deaths Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni People from Drohobych Polish male painters