Bronislaw Bak

ResumÉ

Select Commissions

1958—61: Design and execution of the stained glass window
St. John’s Abbey Church, Collegeville, Minnesota.
Architect: Marcel Breuer.

1962: Wall design and concrete reliefs, St. John’s
Preparatory School, Collegeville, Minnesota.
Architect: Val Michelson.
This project was published in “Architectural Forum,” December 1963;
“Catholic Market,” no. 3/64; “Detail,” No. 4/64
(Muenchen); “Lotus Anuario Dell Architekture,”
64—65 (Milano); “L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui,” No.
117 (Boulogne—Seine)

1963: Colorscheme for the glass and brick structured walls
St. Anasthasia Church, Waukegan, Illinois.

1966: Colorscheme for the glass and brick walls,
Episcopalian Cathedral, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Arch: I.W. Colburn

1968: Interior Design, Democratic Convention Hall,
Amphitheater Chicago.

1969: Concrete Relief Wall, Fire Station, LeHigh and Devon,
City of Chicago.
City Architect: J. Butler.

1969: Stained glass window, Temple Emmanuel, Chicago.
(Many other stained glass windows in the Mid-West)

1971: Concrete relief, Foyer, Pfalztheater, Kaiserslautern,
Germany.

PUBLICATIONS:

1957: Art Today (six serials), Today Magazine, Chicago

1962: “The Artist in a Totalitarian Society;” Study Program: Man in Modern Society/Tn—College participation, co—sponsored by the Hill Foundation. (Travel grant to Poland.)

1962: “The Pardoner’s Tale,” (Chaucer) —— a woodcut film
for ETV, St. Paul, Minn., and Boston.
Republished as a book (Collectors edition.)
Studio Press, Chicago, 1966.

1964: Six film strips: “Old English Literature,” in wood—
cuts for “Beowuif,” “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,”
“Morte d’Arthur,” “Everyman,” “The Second Shepherd’s
Play,” and “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.

1967: Published bond volume of fine prints “Homo Sum” (Collectors edition), Studio Press, Chicago.

1968: “100 Views of Chicago.” Woodcut portfolio, Studio
Press, Chicago.

1969: “On Top of This,” woodcut book, Studio Press, Chicago.

FILMS

(by or with Bronislaw Bak)

“Fragments,” a conversation with Bronislaw M. Bak. (Niles Film, Inc., Chicago) Shown on ETV. “The History of Woodcuts,” Encyclopaedia Britannica Films.
“The Pardoner’s Tale,” with woodcuts by B.M. Bak.
KTCA-TV, St.Paul, Minn.

Collections

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.;
Art Institute of Chicago;
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Penn.;
Pfalzgalerie,Kaiserslautern, Germany;
Gutenberg Museum, Mainz Germany;
B A S F Mannheim du Culture; Grenoble, France;
And in many corporate and private collections in Canada, Germany,
France, Finland, England, Australia, Korea and the United States.

Major Exhibitions

2001: Retrospective,
Saint John’s Art Center
Saint John’s University Collegeville Minnesota

1993: Graphic Works, 1949-1979, Print Retrospective
Organized by the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum
(Traveling Exhibit)

1983: Retrospect Gallery 303 Georgia Southern College

1981: Stanley and Shenk, Atlanta, Ga.(Opened two weeks after his death)

1978: Morris College, New Jersey

1973: Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago

1971: Pfalzgalerie (Museum), Kaiserslautern, Germany
Kunsthaus Buehler, Stuttgart, Germany
Galerie Schneider-Sato, Karisruhe, Germany
Seaberg/Isthmus Gallery, Chicago

1970: Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany
Gallery Liroley, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1969: Town Gallery, Munster, MD.
University of Chicago
Art Center, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
St. Joseph's College, Ohio

1963: New England Art Society (Travel exhibit)
Findlay Gallery, Chicago

1961: St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin

1960: St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn.

1957: Fauve Gallery, Chicago

JURIED Exhibitions

1976: 3rd National Los Angelos Printmakers Exhibition

1972: Intergrafia `72, (International Graphic exhibition,
Kattowice, Poland)

1970: Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern (Pfaelzer Kuenstler)
Old Town Triangle Center (Prinmakers), Chicago

1965-69: Art Institute of Chicago Graphics Gallery

1968: Art Festival, Houston, Texas (Hon. Mention)
International "Religious Art," Seoul, Korea (invitational)

1967: Art Festival, Houston, Texas (1st Prize)

1966: Wusturn Museum, Racine, WI
Architecture and Art (Congress San Francisco)

1965: Architecture and Art (Congress – Chicago

1960-61: "Ultimate Concerns," Printmakers, Athens, OH

1960-61: Oklahoma Printmakers Society

1961: Religious Art -- Kraknow, Poland

1960: Graphic U.S.A., travel exhibit, Sweden, Norway

1950: International "Ars Sacra," Rome, Italy
Annual participation in group shows in Chicago and Rhein-
Land Pfalz, Germany

Artist-INVITational Exhibitions

1975: "Southeastern Printmakers," Cullowhee, N.C.
University of Western Carolina

1976: "Contemporary prints and printmaking techniques,"
Chicago State University

1977: "Old Masters and Contemporary Prints,"
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama