Roser Bru was born in 1923 in Barcelona, Spain, but lived in Paris from 1924 to 1928 with her family. In 1928 her family returned to Barcelona, where she attended the Escuela Montessori and the Instituto Escuela de la Generalitat. The artist escaped to Chile in 1939, a refugee of the Spanish Civil War (1935-39). She enrolled in the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Santiago, where she studied watercolor, drawing and painting. She completed her artistic training at the Taller 99 and she taught drawing and painting at the Escuela de Arte de la Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Chile from 1964-68. As a comment taken from the Cultural Affairs web site of the Chilean Embassy observes, "Considerd one of Chile’s most renowned female artists, Roser Bru (Barcelona, 1923-Present) made a name for herself by painting in a "humanist way." This meant that she portrayed characters biographies through graphical representation. By doing this, Bru stated that s