Tibor Spitz

Tibor Spitz (born 1929) is a Slovak-born player and a Holocaust survivor. After escaping from communist Czechoslovakia to the West he lived and worked in Canada and the United States. He currently resides in Kingston, New York.

In 1929, Tibor Spitz was born in a small town called Dolný Kubín in the high mountains of northern Slovakia, that period part of Czechoslovakia. His dad was a cantor for the Jewish community and mom was a teacher. He survived Holocaust at age 15, studied chemistry in Prague and in 1968 escaped to the West to flesh and blood in Canada and forward-looking in the United States. After his career as a scientist, he became a professional player and lecturer on Holocaust.

Tibor Spitz was born in a Slovak ration of Czechoslovakia that kept shifting from democracy to a fascist Nazi regime followed by the Soviet style communism. Because of his Jewish origin, between the ages 10 to 15 he was not allowed to attend public schools and for three years he was doomed to be either murdered upon the spot or deported to a death camp in available Poland. He was 12 similar to almost all his deported associates vanished without a smack in Nazi Death & Labor camps. After merely long-lasting the Nazi mature he wanted to scrutiny art as did his older brother. However, the already time-honored communist regime arranged for him to scrutiny chemistry. After graduations he worked as an engineer, Ph.D. scientist and glass technology skillful in Czechoslovak glass industry Research and forward movement institutions. In 1968 he was returning to pure his two years assignment in Cuban glass industry subsequently he and his wife Noemi (during an airplane refueling End in Canada) escaped to the West. Nine years well ahead they moved from Canada to the United States. 30 years in glass industry had followed 14 years operating as a scientist developing hi-tech magnetic recording heads for computers and VCRs.

Suppressed memories of his tragic childhood required an outlet lonesome art could sufficiently provide. Communist country where he lived for two decades would not bow to it, while embassy freedoms in the West fully supported his forgive artistic expressions. Next to his scientific and puzzling profession Tibor Spitz became simultaneously an active performer as well. The unusually creative artistic vibes in both Kingston and easily reached Woodstock, New York gradually turned him into a professional artist. As his assimilation in art continued growing, besides painting he has been with sculpting, making ceramics, wood carvings and wood burnings. When he discovered that impressionists have not adequately exhausted whatever their artistic possibilities, his painting techniques gradually gravitated toward pointillism and neo-impressionism. Besides initial hounding faces and figurative scenes united with Holocaust, Judaism and Jewish mystical teachings Kabbalah, he also bonus fishing scenes, musicians, horses, still-life and landscapes. College courses as without difficulty as directions from his mentor Meyer Lieberman were good help in developing his artistic skills.

His art was exhibited in many solo and charity shows. Galleries, museums, schools, colleges as competently as cultural, scientific, religious and public institutions were interested in both his presentations and exhibitions. During last decades, solo exhibitions of his art were held numerous become old in New York State, New Jersey, Canada, in his indigenous Slovakia, in Prague, Art Society of Kingston, HCT, Gallery SEVEN21 and many others.

In 1997 an American art historian Matthew Baigell included his biography and reproduction of his painting in his book "Jewish-American artists and the Holocaust". In 2008 a Canadian substitute director V. Toth used his paintings in her book "Shalom" issued in both Canada. His achievements were described in dozens of media reports published in several countries. A documentary movie titled "TIBOR SPITZ - Portraits of successful Slovaks abroad" (2015) was shown in both Slovakia, Canada and upon Slovak Television.

2. Valeria Tothova: SHALOM. Kanadska zakladna pre umenie a divadlo. Toronto, Canada, 2008 (book)

3. V. & D. Toth: TIBOR SPITZ - Portrety uspesnych Slovakov. Documentary film. Toronske Slovenske Divadlo, 2015 (documentary film)