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The Portraitist
The Portraitist is a 2005 Polish television documentary film about the life and work of Wilhelm Brasse, the famous "photographer of Auschwitz", made for TVP1, Poland, which first aired in its "Proud to Present" series on January 1, 2006. It also premiered at the Polish Film Festival, at the West London Synagogue, in London, on March 19, 2007.
Background.
In August 1940, when he was 23, after fleeing the Nazi occupation of Żywiec, his home town
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- Alexey Venetsianov, prominent genre painter, founder of the "Venetsianov school"
- Vasily Vereshchagin, battle painter, author of "" and the ""
- Romanov Viktor (born 1959), painter
- Mikhail Vrubel, leader of the "Russian Symbolism", author of "" and ""
- Nikolai Yaroshenko, realist genre painter and portraitist
- Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets, portrait painter of Chechen origin
- Leon Zernitsky, illustrator and artist
- Karp Zolotaryov