Signed p.g.: Maurycy Trębacz
Maurycy Trębacz (1861 - 1941) of the late 19th and early 20th century was one of the most popular Jewish painters. He studied with Wojciech Gerson and Antoni Kaminski at the Warsaw Drawing Class, and with Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Jan Matejko at the Cracow School of Fine Arts. Then, from 1883, he studied at the Academy in Munich under Alexander Wagner and Otto Seitz, and from 1889-1890 at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. He completed his studies with a silver medal. He exhibited his paintings from 1884, succeeding in exhibitions at home and abroad - in Munich, Paris (1889 - bronze medal), Chicago (1894 - gold medal). In 1894 he settled in Warsaw, from where in 1909 he moved permanently to Lodz, where he ran his own painting school until 1939. He painted genre scenes, paintings on Jewish themes, landscapes and numerous portraits. The artist's work was recently recalled by a major exhibition of his works organized at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and the Museum of the History of the City of Lodz.
