Biography of the artist Buck

The biography of Samuel Bak was born on August 12 in Vilna in an educated cultural family of average wealth. The eight -year -old tank made these distinctive signs for himself, his parents and the whole large family. Samuel's father was sent to the camp of coercive work, and the boy and his mother himself managed to flee from the ghetto and hide in the house of Janina Rushkevich, his grandfather’s sisters, who adopted Christianity in his youth.

Yanina found refugees for refugees in the Benesedektians monastery, where the nun Maria Mikulska took a talented child under her protection and even found paints and paper so that he could continue to draw. When the Nazis began to suspect the Bendecans in connection with the Soviets, they installed military supervision in the monastery. The Bak family was forced to return to the ghetto again.

In March, poets Avrom Sutskevers and Shmerke Kacherginsky invited a nine -year -old tank to take part in the exhibition organized in the ghetto. In the same year, feeling that the end was approaching, the poets decided to transfer Baku to store the book Pinkas Hakeilot - a list of the Jewish community of the city. The paper at that time was a rarity and the white pages of the book were beckoning the young artist.

Over the next two years, Samuel drew Pinkas Hakeilot in the fields and empty pages. Samuel and his mother got to the camp later, after the liquidation of the ghetto on September 24. Baku's mother fled, taking advantage of the confusion. Samuel himself was hiding under the bed in one of the barracks. A few days later, his father carried him out of the camp in a bag of sawdust. Outside the camp, he handed it to the woman: they agreed in advance that in her hands there would be a scarf of Samuel's mother.

It was a maid Yanina Rushkevich, who sent her to bring a child. Samuel and his mother were again forced to look for a shelter. Again, they had to make the way to the Benesedektians' monastery, where they hid 11 months before the liberation. Ten days before the release of Vilno, July, the concluded concentration camps, including the artist’s father, were driven together and shot in Ponary.

After the release, the tank took drawing lessons from prof. Polish citizenship had before the war, the family had the right to return to Poland. So they got to Lodz, where the future artist studied with prof. After a short stay in Berlin, Samuel and his mother arrived in the camp for displaced persons in Landsberg in the year. Here they met with Nathan Markovsky, who worked in the camp administration, who also survived the Holocaust.

Subsequently, he became the adoptive father of the boy. Soon, Baku was sent to Munich to study with prof. He became a regular in city museums and studied German expressionism well. In the year, David Ben-Gurion visited Bad Reichenhal, where an exhibition of works by a talented Jewish boy Samuel Buck was organized in his honor. At the age of 15, Samuel arrives in Israel on the ship "Pan York".

Together with him, he brings many of his works created in the camp for displaced persons in Landsberg. In the year, on the eve of service in the army, he studies at the Academy of Arts. In the year, Peter Fry, one of the most famous theater figures in Israel, offers Baku to work on theatrical scenery and costumes. In the year, he arrives in Paris and enters the National Higher School of Extreme Arts Ecole National des Beaux-Arts.

In the year, the tank moves to Rome. In the year, it represents its work on the Venice Biennale. In the year, he settles in Boston and is exhibited in the Packer Gallery. Only in the year the tank for the first time after the war visits Vilna and then returns several times to his hometown. Yanina Rushkevich, sister Samuel Buck in childhood with poet A.