Bruno Bobak

Bruno Bobak is renowned for his paintings of the Canadian landscape.  While his nudes are less numerous, connoisseurs familiar with the artist will recognize this brilliant body of his work.

Born in Poland in 1923, Bruno Bobak immigrated to Canada in 1927. At the age of thirteen he began Saturday morning art classes in Toronto under Arthur Lismer and later studied at the Central Technical School.  In 1942, he joined the army and was shortly thereafter appointed as an official war artist.

While stationed in England he met Molly Lamb, Canada's first female war artist and daughter of the inlfluentiual art figure Harold Mortimer Lamb.  The two eventually married and settled in Ottawa after the war, where Bruno worked as an artist.  They moved to Molly's home town of Vancouver in 1948 where Bruno taught at the Vancouver School of Art.  Finally, in 1960, the couple moved  to Fredericton, New Brunswick, where they would remain for the remainder of their lives. Bruno was first a resident artist at the University of New Brunswick, then from 1962, Director of the University of New Brunswick Art Centre.

Bobak was also member of any number of significant art groups.  He was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters, Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, British Columbia Society of Artists, and the Royal Canadian Academy of Art.

During his career Bruno Bobak participated in more than two hundred and fifty group exhibitions and has had more than eighty solo exhibitions.  His paintings were purchased by many private collectors.  They can also be found in the collections of major museums, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery,  the Canadian War Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the New Brunswick Art Museum, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.