Gunnar Heckscher
Heckscher was born in Djursholm, son of economist Eli Heckscher. He graduated from Uppsala University in 1927 and obtained a PhD 1934. He lectured in political science at Uppsala between 1933 and 1941 and at what later became Stockholm University between 1941 and 1948. He was Dean of the Social Institute of Stockholm 1945-1954. He became a professor in 1948 and worked at both the Social Institute and at Stockholm University.
Eli Bornstein
In 1950 Bornstein became head of the newly established Department of Fine Arts at the University of Saskatchewan.
During his summer breaks he studied in Paris, France at the Académie de Montmartre of Fernand Léger in 1951 and at the Académie Julian in 1952.
He also studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and obtained an MSc in 1954.
Bornstein resigned from his position as head of the Fine Arts department in 1971.
Bornstein became a Canadian citizen in 1972.
He continued to teach art at the University of Saskatchewan until 1990, when he retired.