Sam Bak is a prolific contemporary painter who has developed a visual symbol language over the last 70 years. His work illustrates his profound sense of hope, memory, and loss after surviving the Holocaust. Now displayed in museums around the world, including the Bak museums in Vilna, Lithuania (formerly Poland), and in Omaha, Nebraska, Sam’s work is a testament to the power of art.
Join Sam in marking International Holocaust Remembrance day with this special online program. He will talk through his life and work, sharing how his work illustrates his story, and concluding with the lighting of a yahrzeit (memorial) candle.
Samuel Bak was born in Vilna, Poland, in 1933 at a crucial moment in modern history. From 1940 to 1944, Vilna was under Soviet, then German occupation. Bak’s artistic talent was first recognized during an exhibition of his work in the Ghetto of Vilna when he was 9 years old. While he and his mother survived, his father and four grandparents all perished at the hands of the Nazis. At the end of the war, he fled with his mother to the Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp, where he enrolled in painting lessons at the Blocherer School in Munich. In 1948, they immigrated to the newly established State of Israel. He studied at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem and completed his mandatory service in the Israeli army. In 1956, he went to Paris to continue his education at the École des Beaux Arts. Bak has exhibited extensively in major museums, galleries, and universities throughout Europe, Israel, and the United States. He lived and worked in Tel Aviv, Paris, Rome, New York, and Lausanne before settling in Massachusetts in 1993 and becoming an American citizen.
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