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His vividly colorful canvasses will be part of the Ann Arbor Spring Art Fair which will take place at the University of Michigan Track and Tennis Building on State Street, Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. How did he manage to paint a portrait of King Faisal, who at the height of the Arab oil squeeze in the mid-1970s, was world Jewry's leading adversary? "He was in Munich to buy some hotels and Mercedes shares and saw an exhibit of my work at the prestigious House of Art. The king came to me, took one look, and asked, 'Are you Jewish?' "I replied: 'Sorry, I am.' " 'Don't be sorry,' he an- swered. 'You're a good painter.' I made three por- traits of the king. When he asked me how much I would charge for the painting, I named an exorbitant price as a joke. I was flab- bergasted when he agreed and made out the check. I guess it was still pocket change for him." Three months later, the king was assassinated. Manfred Heine-Baux's paintings have attracted en- thusiastic acclaim worldwide. His travels to di- verse locales, from east Africa to the Navajo Indian reservations, have given his work a sense of bold sensual color not found in the more subdued canvasses of the in- itial impressionists. His paintings have been displayed in prominent galleries in all of the major world art capitals, including the Grand Palais of Paris, which ranks after the Louvre and New York's Metropolitan as the most Manfred Heine Baux - prestigious place for an ar- tist's work to be seen. Yet, he chooses to reside in the quiet, comfortable town of Cambridge, Ont., set among rolling hills and Mennonite farmland, about 150 miles east of Detroit. He was able to survive the Holocaust because his father hid the family. Also, he said the Gestapo searched for hidden Jews in Munich, but not in the county where the family lived. After the war, Mr. Heine- Baux grew up in Munich. But it wasn't until 1960 that he discovered the full impact of the Holocaust. "It was not so easy to find out," he said. "To me, Dauchau was just another Munich suburb. While 90 percent of my parents' friends were Jews who had hidden from the Nazis, I didn't know what it meant to be Jewish until I was 10." Mr. Heine-Baux received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1964. He then became an assistant pro- fessor of etching and stone lithography. A calendar of his prints was published and then purchased by Mercdes- Benz, BMW and Porsche for Christmas gifts. This, he said, was where he really became known as an artist. After living and working in France, he accepted an invitation from New York's Victor Gallery in 1984. A wealthy friend of his parents, Seymour Schumann, allowed Manfred to live in his Catskills farm- house. "Seymour gave me a Rolls Royce to go to the Madison Avenue galleries. I had to