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Klaus Guido Grutzka (February 9, 1923, in Breslau (Wroclaw), Upper Silesia, Germany – March 28, 2011, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US) was a German artist. His father, Johan (Jan) Grutzka, (Grudska) was born in Krakau (Kraków), Upper Silesia. He began working as a young man in a coal mine and enjoyed drawing and painting in his spare time. His artistic talents came to the attention of a local nobel man who decided to sponsor young Grudska. Throughout his career he painted industrial motives as well as the insides of Catholic churches. (Frescos ?) Johann Grudska met his wife Helene, they got married and had two children, one a girl, named her Marianne and a son, whom they named Klaus Guido. As a young man, Klaus moved from Breslau to Kiel, a Baltic harbor town and one of the major naval ports in Germany, the Baltic port at the end of the Kiel Canal. There, around 1940, he joined the Kriegsmarine as an officer’s candidate. During his navy time he underwent training as an engineer. First on a destroyer, which was attacked and sank and he barely survived this harrowing experience. His next command was that of a Chief Engineer on a German submarine, in charge of its massive diesel engines.
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9 February 1923 Wroclaw, Poland
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28 March 2011 (aged 88) Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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| Zodiac | Aquarius |
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