Biography

THEO TOBIASSE

THEO TOBIASSE was born in 1927 in Israel and lived in Lituania until the age of 4 , then he arrived in France.
He settled down in Nice in 1950.
He had fist been working for ten years as a graphics conceptor and had experimented different techniques before focussing on painting in 1959.
In the 1960s , he participated in various exhibitions (Antibes , Paris , Geneva , Montreal , Tokyo , Denver , New York).
In 1961, he won the Prize of the Young Mediterranean Painting.
In 1969 , he achieved his first collection of 18 lithographs in connection with the theme of Diaspora.
He travelled much around the world and settled down in 1975 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence ( French Riviera).
Women and The Bible became the two main themes of his work. In 1982 , he imagined monumental works dedicated to different places (Palais des Congrès de Nice , Chapelle Saint Sauveur in Le Cannet , Centre Communautaire Israélite in Strasbourg…).
He started using even more joint techniques and added much relief to his work
In 1984 , New York became a major theme in his work as well as his second dwelling place.
Nowadays , his paintings are housed by many museums and collections in France and abroad.