Bruno Zupan was born in a small village in Slovenia in 1939, on the eve of World War II. His father was killed in the war, and his family was left destitute. But the artistic dreams of the young Zupan managed to stay alive, and Bruno eventually attended art school in Zagreb, Croatia. In 1962 he emigrated to Paris and officially left behind provincialism forever. He was to become a citizen, and a painter, of the world. In addition to confirming his artistic vocation, it was in Paris that he met and married his wife, Jane, an American from the Deep South. Together they have traveled the world, with Paris, Mallorca, and Venice as Zupan's favorite painting destinations.

The artist Zupan works directly in front of his subject, en plein air, wherever that air is. He chooses places that he connects with deeply to paint. Then he spends hours a day, and then days and weeks, exuberantly depicting what he feels to be the magic of that place.

As one critic wrote: "He arrives at a direct expression that springs from his natural impulses when confronted with beauty, his eye and hand perfectly coordinated to capture the movement of a leaf in the exact instant that it breaks loose from a tree-limb or the sudden shift of light that bathes a field of flowers in golden auras. It is Zupan's great gift to be able to translate such subtle phenomena into stunning aesthetic statements. [He is] a painter whose rhapsodic brush work and singular vision have garnered him a world wide following among those who still seek beauty in the art of painting. Bruno Zupan is one of the last great romantics, and for that alone his work is worth treasuring."

Bruno Zupan has exhibited in solo shows throughout the world, and is represented in several major public and private collections including the Bank of America Collection; the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Georgia; the Oklahoma City Museum of Art; the Carter Center, Atlanta; the collection of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent; the Perl Collection; the Rockefeller Collection; the Rothschild Collection; and the collection of Li Xiannian, former president of China. Bruno and Jane Zupan live in five cities throughout the year: Mallorca, Paris, Venice, Columbus, and New York.