A Survivor:

Albert Alcalay survived a concentration camp during the Holocaust, then became a jazz-influenced abstract painter and ultimately a Harvard professor. "His early European work was expressionist in nature, but with his move to the urban landscapes of the U.S. in the 1950s, and death of a dear friend, Alcalay was forced to find a new visual language, one that was fluid and often informed by the events of his life, including the loss of his eyesight late in life." Alcalay was an amazing man and an amazing painter.