Biography


	SAMUEL BAK BIOGRAPHY



	1933 Born 12 August in Vilna, Poland. 1940-44 Under German occupation: ghetto, work-camp, refuge in a monastery. 1942 First exhibition of drawings in the ghetto Vilna. 1945-48 Displaced Persons camps in Germany; studied painting in Munich. 1948 Emigrated to Israel. 1952 Studied at the Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem. 1953-56 Army service. 1956-59 Lived in Paris. Studied at the "Ecole des Beaux-Arts." 1959-66 Lived in Rome; 1966-74 in Israel; 1974-77 in New York City; 1977-80 in Israel; 1980-84 in Paris; 1984-93 in Switzerland. 1993 Moved to Weston, Massachusetts. SELECTED GALLERY EXHIBITIONS Galleria Schneider, Rome, Italy – 1959, 1961, 1965, 1966 Alwin Gallery, London, United Kingdom – 1965 L'Angle Aigu, Brussels, Belgium – 1965 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel – 1966 Roma Gallery, Chicago, IL – 1967 Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA – 1969, 1972, 1975, 1979, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991 Hadassah "K" Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel – 1971, 1973, 1978 Aberbach Fine Art, New York, NY – 1974, 1975, 1978 Ketterer Gallery, Munich, Germany – 1977 Amstutz Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland – 1978 Goldman Gallery, Haifa, Israel – 1978 Vonderbank Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany – 1978 DeBel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel – 1978, 1980 Thorens Fine Art, Basel, Switzerland – 1981 Kallenbach Fine Art, Munich, Germany – 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987 Soufer Gallery, New York, NY – 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1997, 2006 Galerie Ludwig Lange, Berlin, Germany – 1987 Galerie Carpentier, Paris, France – 1988 Galerie Marc Richard, Zurich, Switzerland – 1990 Galerie de la Cathedrale, Fribourg, Switzerland – 1991, 1992 Galerie Picpus, Montreux, Switzerland – 1991, 1992 Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA – 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 George Krevsky Fine Art, San Francisco, CA – 1998 Beaver Country Day School, Chestnut Hill, MA – 2004 Finegood Gallery, Milken Jewish Center, Los Angeles, CA – 2004 St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA – 2004 Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, Jewish Community Center, Manhattan, NY – 2006 SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS Bezalel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel – 1963 Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel – 1963 Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA – 1976 Germanisches National Museum, Nuremberg, Germany – 1977 Heidelberg Museum, Heidelberg, Germany – 1977 Haifa University, Haifa, Israel – 1978 Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany – 1978 Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany – 1978 Kunstmuseum, Wiesbaden, Germany – 1979 Stadtgalerie Bamberg, Villa Dessauer, Germany – 1988 Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Canada – 1990 Dürer Museum, Nuremberg, Germany – 1991 Temple Judea Museum, Philadelphia, PA – 1991 Jüdisches Museum, Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Germany – 1993 Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY – 1994 Janice Charach Epstein Museum and Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI – 1994 National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, Seton Hall College, Greensburg, PA – 1995 Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL – 1995 B’Nai B’Rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC – 1997 Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX – 1997 Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH – 1997 Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, Germany – 1998 National Museum of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania – 2001 Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN – 2001 Florida Holocaust Museum, Saint Petersburg, FL – 2001, 2007, 2009 Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH – 2002 Clark University, Worcester, MA – 2002 Neues Stadtmuseum, Landsberg am Lech, Germany – 2002 92nd Street Y, New York, NY – 2002 Jewish Community Center, Memphis, TN – 2003 University of Scranton, Scranton, PA – 2003 City Hall Gallery, Orlando, FL – 2004 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX – 2004 Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN – 2004 Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrueck, Germany – 2006 University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH – 2006 Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem, Israel – 2006 Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL – 2008 Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, Tulsa, OK – 2008 Keene State College, Cohen Holocaust Center, Keene, NH – 2008 Brown University, John Hay Library, Providence, RI – 2009 DePauw University, The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics, Greencastle, IN – 2009 Drew University, Korn Gallery and University Library, Madison, NJ – 2009 Wabash College, Eric Dean Gallery, Crawfordsville, IN – 2009 Queensborough Community College, Holocaust Resource Center, Bayside, NY – 2009 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University, Medford, MA Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Ben Uri Gallery, London, England Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brookline, MA Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Boston Public Library, Boston, MA Constitutional Court of South Africa, Braamfontein, South Africa Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA Dürer House, Nuremberg, Germany Drew University, Madison, NJ Facing History and Ourselves, Brookline, MA Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück, Germany Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL Germanisches National Museum, Nuremberg, Germany German Parliament, Bonn, Germany Hillel Foundation, Washington, DC Hobart & William Smith College, Geneva, NY Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Imperial War Museum, London, United Kingdom Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Jewish Museum, New York, NY Jüdisches Museum, Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Germany Keene State College, Cohen Holocaust Center, Keene, NH Kunstmuseum, Bamberg, Germany McMullen Museum, Boston, College, Chestnut Hill, MA Municipality of Nuremberg, Germany Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada National Museum of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, Germany Philips-Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH Rose Museum, Brandeis, Waltham, MA Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, Tulsa, OK Simmons College, Boston, MA Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN Springfield Museum of Fine Art, Springfield, MA Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel Tufts University, Medford, MA Tweed Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN University of Haifa, Israel University of Scranton, Scranton, PA Vaud State, Switzerland Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN Williams College of Art, Williamstown, MA Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY PUBLICATIONS Icon of Loss: The Haunting Child of Samuel Bak, Danna Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips, Pucker Art Publications, Boston, and Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2009. Representing the Irreparable: The Shoah, the Bible, and the Art of Samuel Bak, Danna Nolan Fewell, Gary A. Phillips and Yvonne Sherwood, Eds. Pucker Art Publications, Boston, and Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2008. Return to Vilna in the Art of Samuel Bak, Lawrence L. Langer. Pucker Art Publications, Boston & Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2007. Samuel Bak: Leben danach, Life Thereafter, Eva Atlan and Peter Junk. Felix Nussbaum Haus & Rasch, Verlag, Bramsche, Osnabrueck, Germany, 2006. New Perceptions of Old Appearances in the Art of Samuel Bak, Lawrence L. Langer. Pucker Art Publications, Boston & Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2005. Painter of Questions, TV Film by Christa Singer, Toronto, Canada, 2003. Between Worlds: The Paintings and Drawings of Samuel Bak from 1946-2001. Pucker Art Publications, Boston, 2002. Painted in Words: A Memoir. Pucker Art Publications, Boston & Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2002. In A Different Light: Genesis in the Art of Samuel Bak, Lawrence L. Langer. Pucker Art Publications, Boston & University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2001. The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak, Pucker Art Publications, Boston & Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2000. Landscapes of Jewish Experience, Lawrence Langer. Pucker Art Publications, Boston & University Press of New England, Hanover, 1997. Ewiges Licht (Landsberg: A Memoir 1944-1948), Samuel Bak. Jewish Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, 1996. Chess as Metaphor in the Art of Samuel Bak, Jean Louis Cornuz. Pucker Art Publications, Boston & C.A. Olsommer, Montreux, 1991. Samuel Bak, The Past Continues, Samuel Bak and Paul T. Nagano. David R. Godine, Boston, 1988. Bak, Monuments to Our Dreams, Rolf Kallenbach. Limes Verlag, Weisbaden & Munich, 1977. Bak, Paintings of the Last Decade, A. Kaufman and Paul T. Nagano. Aberbach, New York, 1974.

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