Lan-Bar was born in Poland in 1912 and immigrated to Palestine in 1935. He studied with Miron Sima and for a short period at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. In the early 1940’s he moved to Tel Aviv and studied with Aharon Avni. In 1945 he was among the founders of The Studio and studied painting with Avidgdor Stematsky and Yehezkel Streichman. In 1948 he arrived in Paris and studied at the Ecole de Beaux Arts, Paris. He died in Paris in 1987.
