Shemuel Bak was born August 12, 1933 in Vilna (Vilnius year from 10.10.1939). His artistic talent was recognized at an early age. In five years, he promised his grandfather Arno Nadel (Jewish poet, musician and artist) to dedicate his life to art. Nazi occupation of Vilna in 1940 interrupted those early aspirations. However, Buck was able to hold his first exhibition of drawings in the Vilna ghetto in 1942. Buck was one of the 150 Jews in Vilna, who survived the war - from the Jewish community of 80,000 people. The trauma of the Holocaust had a profound influence on subsequent artistic works.
In 1948, he and his mother had permission to emigrate to Israel, and four years later he studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. After long journeys around the world (New York, Israel, Paris, Switzerland), where he lived and worked in 1993 Shemuel Bak settled in Boston, Massachusetts. The first time he came to his home to Vilnius in 2001, the same year he published his book "Memoirs," which was published in four languages. The artist's works are difficult to describe complex. Now the artist 79, he continues to work and creates its own visual language to remind the world of its most desperate moments. His works are in the permanent exhibition Pucker Gallery in Boston, as well in leading museums and galleries around the world.
Samuel Bak
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