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brașov , romania canadian painting , drawing , installation , photography royal canadian academy of arts -lrb- rca -rrb- peter krausz
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peter krausz

peter krausz -lrb- born 1946 -rrb- 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 '' -lrb- no -rrb- 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 '' -lrb- 1988 -rrb- and '' -lrb- no -rrb- man 's land '' series -lrb- 2009-2014 -rrb- .
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 .
