Karol Broniatowski was born in 1945 in Łódź (Poland). From 1964 to 1970 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw as a master student of Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz. In 1972 he was invited to represent Poland at the 26th Venice Biennale. As a DAAD scholarship holder he moved to the current premises of the Kunsthaus Dahlem in 1976. This was followed by participation in the 1981 Biennale in São Paulo and the design of the fountain at Franz-Neumann-Platz in Berlin in 1984. In 1985 he was awarded second prize for the memorial design of the synagogue in Lewetzowstraße in Berlin. In 1991 he created one of his most important memorials to the deported Jews in Berlin at Grunewald station. Broniatowski lives and works in Berlin.