Peter Krausz

Peter Krausz (born 1946) is a Romanian-born Canadian artist. Throughout his career, he worked within the fields of painting, drawing, installation, and photography and, since 1970, exhibited in museums and galleries across Canada, the United States, and Europe. He is best known for large-scale landscape paintings of the Mediterranean.

Krausz's landscapes, described as "spaces halfway between the real and the imaginary", convey man's interrelationship with nature. Identified by translucent, egg-tempera color and ''secco'' technique, in a review of the ''(No) Man's Land'' exhibition at Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, ''ARTnews'' critic Richard Chang noted, "a luminosity that captured crisp light and clean shadows spreading across the island."

Born in Brașov, Romania, in 1946, Krausz pursued art encouraged by his parents, artist and art-educator Tiberiu Krausz, and Judith Krausz, an art historian. From 1964 to 1969, he studied drawing, painting and mural techniques at the Nicolae Grigorescu Fine Arts Institute in Bucharest. In 1969 Krausz and his parents fled Communist Romania through Czechoslovakia and Austria into Italy. Described as a "flight toward the unknown" and "escape across a Cold-War border", this event inspired the ''Berlin Series'' (1988) and ''(No) Man's Land'' series (2009-2014). After a year in Rome, Krausz and his family emigrated to Montreal, Canada, in 1970. He exhibited there that same year, and solo exhibitions of his work were held at Galerie Malborough-Godard in 1976 and at Galerie Theo Waddington in 1979. From 1980 to 1990, Krausz was curator of the Saidye Bronfman Centre Art Gallery and taught in the Fine Arts Department of Concordia University. In 1991, he joined the faculty of the Université de Montréal, and is a tenured Professor of Fine Art in the Art History and Cinema Studies Department. Provided by Wikipedia