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Fernando de Szyszlo Art

Peruvian, b. 1925
Fernando de Szyszlo Valdelomar was a Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker, and teacher who was a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-1950s, and one of the leading plastic artists in Peru. Szyszlo was born in Lima, Peru; his mother was Peruvian of Spanish-Indian descent, and his father was 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 André Breton and was part of the group of expatriate Latin American artists and writers who met regularly at the Café 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 to Peru, Szyszlo became a major force for artistic renewal in his country breaking new ground by expressing a Peruvian subject matter in a non-representational style. In 1962, he became a professor of art at Cornell University. In 1965 he became a visiting lecturer at Yale University. Szyszlo was married to the Peruvian poet Blanca Varela (1926–2009), with whom he had two children. At the time of his death, he resided and worked in Lima. He died on October 9, 2017, the same day as his second wife, Lila Yábar(m.1988) in a domestic accident according to his secretary.
(Biography provided by Kings Gallery)
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Artist: Fernando de Szyszlo
Untitled Edition 7 of 99
By Fernando de Szyszlo
Located in Miami, FL
Fernando de Szyszlo was a Peruvian painter best known for using pre-Columbian imagery and muted palette. De Szyszlo’s art was an attempt at reinventing Surrealist themes in a Latin A...
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20th Century Fernando de Szyszlo Art

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Abstract Lithograph by Fernando De Szyszlo - 1970
By Fernando de Szyszlo
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Artist: Fernando De Szyszlo, Peru (1925 - ) Title: Sin Titulo Year: 1970 Medium: Lithograph on Arches Paper, signed and dated in pencil Edition: 41/100 Size: 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 5...
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Cermonia
By Fernando de Szyszlo
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Late 20th Century Fernando de Szyszlo Art

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Habitacion
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Late 20th Century Fernando de Szyszlo Art

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Mar de Lurin XXXIV
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Mar de Lurin XXI - Diptych
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Untitled II
By Fernando de Szyszlo
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Mar de Lurin XXI
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