Born in 1904, Jonasz Stern studied privately with P. Gajewski, then, in the late 1920s in Kraków at the Free School of Painting and Drawings by L. Mehofferowa and at the Academy of Fine Arts with W. Jarocki, F. Pautsch, T. Axentowicz and S. Kamocki. During World War II, he lived in the Lviv ghetto. He was active in the underground, escaped from a transport to the death camp in Belzec, and avoided mass execution. In 1945, he returned to Kraków and became involved with the community centered around Tadeusz Kantor. Jonasz Stern was active in the Krakow Group, which was renewed after the war (he belonged to its pre-war founders). In the 1950s and 1970s, he lectured in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. From 1958, he dealt with ...