Retrospective of the Czech painter Bruno Beran (1888-1979) who lived in Mallorca from 1970 until his death nine years later, although his existence discoursed parallel to the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, his painting remained outside of the transformations that affected art and society of his time.
He was a self-taught painter who entered into the School of Applied Arts of Vienna in 1903 under the influence of Klimt, but soon discovered that bohemian lifestyle or vanguards didn’t go with him.
After his marriage to Irene Subak he lived in several countries. He has been a fashionable portraitist of high society in Montreal during the forties, an established and very active painter in Washington. Preceded by a deserved reputation for his portraits, the Museum of Mallorca organized in 1977 an anthology of his work in return for which he donated 18 of his works to the Balearic Government.
