Fernando de Szyszlo
Fernando De Szyszlo Valdelomar is a Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker, and teacher who is a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid1950s, and one of the leading plastic artists in Peru.
Szyszlo was born in Lima, Peru his mother was Peruvian of SpanishIndian descent, and his father a geographer from Poland. In 1943, Szyszlo entered the architecture school of the National University of Engineering, but abandoned plans to follow that profession and enrolled in the School of Plastic Arts of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. After his graduation in 1948, he traveled to Europe where he studied the works of the masters, particularly Rembrandt, Titian and Tintoretto, and absorbed the varied influences of Cubism, Surrealism, Informalism, and abstraction. Szyszlo lived in Paris and Florence from 1948 to 1955, and then returned to Peru. While in Paris he met Octavio Paz and Andr Breton and was part of the group of expatriate Latin American artists and writers who met regularly at the Caf de Flore, engaging in vigorous discussions on how they could participate in the international modern movement while preserving their Latin American cultural identity. Upon his return t
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