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
Maurycy Orzech arrested by the Gestapo. According to some sources he was arrested during an attempt to cross the Romanian border, brought back to Warsaw where was placed in Pawiak prison and killed in August 1943. Maurycy Orzech Maurycy Orzech (; nom de guerre: "Janczyn"; 1891 – August 1943, Warsaw) was a Polish-Jewish economist, journalist, politician and a leader of the Jewish Bund in interwar Poland. He was one of the commanders of the Bund during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Orzech joined the Bund in 1907 and was in charge of the party's newspaper, "Forverts". In the late 1920s he served as