in 2013 Roser Bru was born in
Barcelona in 1923. The following year her family went into exile in
Paris, France, as a result of the dictatorship of
Miguel Primo de Rivera. Four years later, they returned to their hometown where Bru studied at the
Montessori School and later, in 1931, at the . After the
Spanish Civil War, in 1939, she moved back to France, where she embarked for Chile on the
SS Winnipeg. She arrived in
Valparaíso on 3 September of that year. She studied painting at the School of Fine Arts of the
University of Chile from 1939 to 1942, where she was a student of
Pablo Burchard and . In 1957 she began her
engraving studies at Taller 99, directed by
Nemesio Antúnez. Bru exhibited in several countries in Latin America, as well as in Spain, while some of her works are in the
Museum of Modern Art in New York, the
Brooklyn Museum, the
Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, the , the
Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, the
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, the
National Historical Museum, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, and the
Staatliche Museen in Berlin, among others. Roser Bru died in
Santiago on 26 May 2021 at the age of 98. ==Recognition==