Kramsztyk (1885-1942) was born in Warsaw as the son of the doctor Julian Kramsztyk (1851-1925) and grandson of the Reform rabbi Izaak Kramsztyk (1814-1899).
He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow with Józef Mehoffer and in Warsaw at the private art school of Adolf Eduard Herstein, and from 1904 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Johann Caspar Herterich.
Between 1910 and 1914 he settled in Paris, during the First World War he lived in Warsaw and continued his painting studies with Adolf Eduard Herstein.
From 1922 he returned to live in Paris, but visited Poland every year. During the 1939 visit he was surprised by the outbreak of World War II and the German occupation of Poland. He was forced to enter the Warsaw ghetto. He was shot dead by a German soldier in 1942 on a ghetto street.
Kramsztyk's painting was influenced by the art of Paul Cézanne. He created portraits, nudes, still lifes and genre paintings. During his stay in the ghetto he created drawings showing the lives of imprisoned Jews. Some of these drawings survived the war as documents of the horror of the Holocaust.
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