Provenance:

Galerie Biro, Montreal, QC

Note:

GEZA BIRO (1919 - 2008)

Geza Biro was born in 1919 in Transylvania, Hungary. He graduated with top honors in Fine Arts, with a minor in Art Restoration, from the Royal Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest in 1943, winning the Royal Scholarship Award in his final year. Biro was recruited into the army during World War II, and was made a prisoner of war for four years. Upon his release after the war, Biro worked for the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest as a researcher, restorer and consultant, restoring historic monuments and artwork that had suffered damage during the war. He began exhibiting his own works in the 1950s at the National Gallery of Hungary and, in the early 1960’s, was exhibited in Austria and Sweden.
In 1967, Biro immigrated to Canada, settling in Montreal and eventually gained recognition as a landscape artist. He held numerous shows in Canada, the United States, Australia and Europe. Biro opened up the Center for Art Restoration along with his two sons, where he exhibited his works and took restoration commissions as well. His works are part of the collections of the Hungarian National Gallery, Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Hungary, the Office of the Governor of Vermont, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and in numerous corporate collections throughout Canada.
Biro died in Montreal in 2008.

Selected Corporate, Private and Public Collections

Bayer Chemicals, Philadelphia, PA
Bow Valley Industries, Calgary, AB
Claridge Collection, Montreal, QC
Collegium Pazmanaeum, Vienna, Austria
Douglas Hospital, Montreal, QC
Dr. Lorenz Bohler Collection, Vienna, Austria
FBI Foods Ltd, Montreal, QC
Four Winds Gallery, Ferrisburg, VT
Fournier, Demers, Barnard & Associates, Montreal, QC
Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Budapest, Hungary
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC
Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal QC
National Gallery of Hungary, Budapest
Office of the Governor of Vermont, Montpelier, VT
Schlesinger & Schlesinger, Montreal, QC
Sefel & Associates, Calgary, AB

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

1986 Gallery Peter Paul Biro, Montreal, QC
1985 Gallery Peter Paul Biro, Montreal, QC
1984 Gallery Peter Paul Biro, Montreal, QC
1983 Salon International des Galeries d’Arts, Montreal, QC
Atelier J. Lukacs, Toronto, ON
International Art Fair, Toronto, ON
Galerie Mihalis, Montreal, QC
1982 International Art Fair, Toronto, ON
Gallery Peter Paul Biro, Montreal, QC
1981 International Art Fair, Toronto, ON
1980 Gallery Peter Paul Biro, Montreal, QC
1979 Gallery Peter Paul Biro, Montreal, QC
1974 Kensington Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1973 Glerie Montcalm, Québec, QC
1971 Four Winds Gallery, Ferrisburg, VT
1970 S.A.P.Q., Montreal, QC
1964 City Hall, Stockholm, Sweden
1963 City Hall, Noorkoping, Sweden
1954, 52, 49 National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Selected Links

gezabiro.com