Maurycy Gottlieb Gottlieb settled in Kraków and began working on his new major project. He died in the same year from health complications. Matejko attended his funeral and promised his father to look after his younger brother Marcin. Gottlieb won a gold medal at the Munich art competition for his painting, "Shylock and Jessica" (1876), portraying a scene from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice". The painting was exhibited in Lviv in 1877, and in 1878 at "Zachęta" in Warsaw and widely acclaimed. Gottlieb based Jessica's face on that of Laura Rosenfeld, to whom he had proposed marriage. However, Laura rejected his proposal
Louis Gottlieb I have been enthusiastic about," said Gottlieb, "mean absolutely nothing to most people." Gottlieb grew up in La Crescenta, California, completed his B.A. at UCLA, performed as jazz pianist, then sang with the Gateway Singers, whom he left to take a Ph.D. in music at U.C. Berkeley in 1958. Gottlieb had completed his doctoral thesis on 15th century cyclic masses when he heard Alex Hassilev and Glenn Yarbrough sing together at Hollywood's Cosmo Alley nightclub. He joined the group, which they named "The Limeliters" after the Limelite Club in Aspen, Colorado. In July 1959, The Limeliters appeared as a trio