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He came from a family of Warsaw, well-to-do Jews, as a child had an accident, by which became deaf. From an early age showed artistic talent when he was seven, he was a student of the Institute for the Deaf, in addition, he studied drawing at the private school. In 1901, he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in the studios of Joseph Mehoffer, Jan Stanislawski and Leon Wyczółkowski, he graduated in 1905, winning a gold medal. After leaving the Academy went on a trip to Odessa, he wanted to see the effects of the pogrom of Jews, their shocking experience was immortalized in a series of images. Then he went to Warsaw and then set off on a journey through Western Europe, stopping in Berlin, Dresden, Munich and Vienna. In 1908 he reached Paris, where he settled permanently, but often returned to Polish. He participated in plein-air workshops organized in Kazimierz Dolny, Sniatyn and Kraśnik, his works were exhibited in Zachęta in Vilnius and Lodz. In 1921 his works are shown at an exhibition of art by Jewish artists in Warsaw, and two years later the Warsaw Jewish community was the organizer of a solo exhibition of his paintings. Besides the home of works by Maurice Minkowski presented galleries in London, Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad, participated also in Belgium and Germany. In November 1930 he went to Argentina to participate in the preparations for the exhibition of his paintings, he was killed in a car accident on one of the streets of Buenos Aires on November 23, 1930. The planned exhibition was held as a posthumous exhibition at the Gallery Muller, was prepared by the Argentine Association of Hebrew.