Fernando de szyszlo biography of albert
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Szyszlo, Fernando de (1925–)
The Peruvian painter and sculptor Fernando de Szyszlo was born on July 5, 1925, in Lima. His father was a Polish botanist, zoologist, and geographer, and his mother was a native Peruvian, sister of the Peruvian poet Abraham Valdelomar.
Fernando de szyszlo biography of albert
Mario Vargas Llosa has described Szyszlo's works as among the most original representations of Latin American Art, rooted in pre-Hispanic symbols and motifs in audacious alliance with cubism, abstract art, and surrealism (Vargas Llosa, p.
9). Szyszlo studied for three years (1944–1947) with the Austrian artist Adolfo Winternitz at the School of Fine Arts at Lima's Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, where he then taught for twenty years (1956–1977). In 1948 he joined Espacio, a group of painters and architects who addressed nativism, seeking artistic renewal in the disciplines of indigenous pre-Hispanic cultures.
Szyszlo's early paintings were figurative, but after his first trip to Europe in 1949 he turned to abst