테오 토비아스는 1927년 텔아비브 (Tel - Aviv) 출신의 이스라엘 화가로 파리 장식 미술학교를 졸업하였다. 그는 상식적인 원근법에서 탈피하여 자유로운 공간을 창조, 인물, 동물 등을 모티브로 생명의 환희를 유머러스하게 표현했다. 이스라엘 특유의 강렬함을 지닌 작가로, 그의 자유로운 예술혼은 화폭마다 살아있어 보는 이에게 가슴 설레는 감동을 준다.

Israeli artist Theo Tobiasse was born in Palestine in 1927 and brought to Paris as a child. He created his earliest art before World War II, and spent the crucial years of his youth hiding from the Nazis in a Paris apartment. Tobiasse technique is a painterly blend of surrealism, expressionism, and modern primitivism. His themes in art are literary, often biblical, and at times erotic. Tobiasse paintings seem to transcend history - fusing dreams, mythologies, and biblical stories and own past into rich metaphors for the world of the present.
An established French and Israeli artist, Theo Tobiasse arts were in a figurative style contemplating a delicate expressionism in his paintings. He began practicing his art while confined to his apartment during the German occupation of Paris, and later found employment with various advertising companies in Paris and Nice. His art was noticed at the Palais de la Mediterranee exhibition of young artists, giving him a wider audience, and allowing him to work as an artist full time. He enjoys tremendous popularity as expressionism in Europe and America with his graphics works on paper as well as his oil work on canvas.