Nicolaus Rossini was a famous Polish

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 painter killed by Nazi

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s during World War II

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. Since his youth age his paintings were exhibited in many different galleries all around Poland. His paintings are well known in Italy

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, where his father came from. Rossini's work was non-schematic. He made his own style - that's one of the reasons why his painting now fetch high prices. However, he is not so much remembered as an artist, but as a hero. During World War II he helped many Jewish orphans survive.

He was executed in Krakow - Plaszow on August 1943.