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"Adam Grochowski Grant: Figure Master" opened on April 4, 2006 in the Jagiellonian University Museum, Collegium Maius with the support of Public Affairs Section Krakow. The exhibit features the paintings of an artist whose works have gained world-wide recognition and whose life was inextricably tied to both Poland and the United States. Adam Grochowski was born in 1924 in Warsaw and died in Toledo, Ohio in 1992. During World War II he was a prisoner in two infamous German Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz and Mauthausen, where he witnessed and experienced much terror and suffering. Art helped him survive the times of oppression and it developed into his profession for the rest of his life. He immigrated to the U. S. in 1950 and changed his name to Grant. He became the chief designer for the Paint-by Numbers sets at Craft Masters.
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