Jan Rubczak

[1] From 1904 to 1911, he was enrolled at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Florian Cynk and Józef Pankiewicz.

In 1924, he returned to a newly independent Poland, where he taught at the "Free School of Painting and Drawing".

[2] During this time, he became member of the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts, where he served in an organizational capacity.

[1] In 1942, after a long convalescence from a heart ailment, he left his home to visit a café that was frequented by artists and writers and got caught up in a Gestapo raid.

He and a group of other "degenerate" artists were taken to Montelupich Prison, then transferred to Auschwitz, where he was shot to death.