Peter Krausz was born in Romania in 1946 and graduated from the Bucharest Academy of Fine Arts in 1969. He emigrated to Montreal, Canada in 1970. He joined the faculty of the University of Montreal in 1991, and is now a tenured professor of Fine Art in the Art History department.  He has received numerous prestigious grants from the Canadian Fine Arts Council and the Québec Ministry of  Cultural Affairs.  His work is included in many important collections, including the Musée d’art Contemporain, Montreal, Musée du Québec, Royal Bank of Canada, Citi Bank, New York, Air Canada, and the Jewish Museum, New York.

Krausz uses an ancient painting technique called secco, which in Italian means ‘dry’. This technique was developed 3500 years ago in Egypt, and used through the Renaissance. The secco technique requires a dry surface, unlike the more familiar fresco technique where the pigments are applied to a wet surface.  Krausz applies paint in many transparent layers to achieve intense colors. Unparalleled in richness and luminosity, secco paintings are also extremely durable and can last for centuries.