About Cundo Bermudez

  • Biography

    Cundo was born in September, 1914. He began High School when he was 13 years old, and shortly afterwards he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. The painter said: "A relative of mine, who watched my drawings, took me to the San Alejandro Academy, so I would learn how to draw. But I left it very soon, I did not like the teaching.

    In 1934 he began studying Diplomatic Law in the University of Havana -to satisfy his family -but the closing of the institution allowed him to graduate in 1941. Before, he had exhibited with four young artists in Albear Park, in 1937 and had traveled abroad a year after.

    He said: "In 1938 I went to Mexico to study drawing. There I got very impressed by Mexican painting and its t...

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