Theo Tobiasse

Theo Tobiasse was born in Palestine in 1927. In 1931 his family moved to Paris where he was educated and, as a child, made his first drawings. During the German occupation of France in World War II, he and his family survived by hiding in a Paris apartment in total isolation. After the war, Tobiasse worked as a graphic designer until 1961 when he abandoned his successful career to concentrate on painting.

A sentimental and private individual, Tobiasse puts his innermost feelings into almost all his work. His reminiscences about his childhood, reflected in symbols of his earlier life, are frequent subjects of his paintings and are combined with Biblical or erotic fantasies, all of which are represented in bright, bold colors.