Frans Krajcberg

Frans Krajcberg (12 April 1921 – 15 November 2017) was a Polish-born naturalized Brazilian painter, sculptor, engraver and photographer. He was known for his environmental activism. Krajcberg was against the destruction of the Brazilian forests, using materials such as burnt wood from illegal forest fires in his artworks.
Krajcberg was of Jewish descent. During World War II he fought in the Polish army. After the war he studied in the Soviet Union and Germany, and afterwards traveled between Brazil, Spain and France. He settled in Brazil in 1956 and became a Brazilian citizen in 1957.
Frans Krajcberg died at the Hospital Samaritano in Rio de Janeiro of complications from pneumonia at the age of 96.