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Biographical/Historical Information

The painter and graphic artist Max Busyn was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1899. He studied at the Art Academy of Dresden from 1922 to 1923 and then lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1933, creating murals for the Jewish seniors' home. He was briefly influenced by Otto Dix. Busyn emigrated to Palestine in 1933. His works from the collection in the Jewish Museum in Berlin were lost in World War II. After the war, Busyn settled in West-Germany; he died in Wiesbaden in 1976.

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Busyn, Max: [Mothers, 1939] : [Mother with gas mask] and [couple with child], Leo Baeck Institute, 80.220.