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1915 Danzig, Germany - 1990 Mexico City, Mexico. Known for: Sculpture, painting, teaching.
Mathias Goeritz (complete name according to Spanish-speaking manner: Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner) was born April 4, 1915 in Danzig, Germany, now in Poland. He died August 4, 1990 in Mexico City.... Read full biography
Mathias Goeritz (complete name according to Spanish-speaking manner: Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner) was born April 4, 1915 in Danzig, Germany, now in Poland. He died August 4, 1990 in Mexico City. He was a well-known Mexican painter and sculptor of German origin. After spending much of the 1940s... Read full biography
Mathias Goeritz (complete name according to Spanish-speaking manner: Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner) was born April 4, 1915 in Danzig, Germany, now in Poland. He died August 4, 1990 in Mexico City. He was a well-known Mexican painter and sculptor of German origin. After spending much of the 1940s in North Africa and Spain, Goeritz and his wife, photographer Marianne Gast, immigrated to Mexico in 1949. Mathias Goeritz spent his childhood in Berlin. He began studying philosophy and the history of... Read full biography
Mathias Goeritz (complete name according to Spanish-speaking manner: Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner) was born April 4, 1915 in Danzig, Germany, now in Poland. He died August 4, 1990 in Mexico City. He was a well-known Mexican painter and sculptor of German origin. After spending much of the 1940s in North Africa and Spain, Goeritz and his wife, photographer Marianne Gast, immigrated to Mexico in 1949. Mathias Goeritz spent his childhood in Berlin. He began studying philosophy and the history of art at Berlin's Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität, now known as the Humboldt University of Berlin, in 1934. Goeritz received a doctorate in art history from this institution in 1940. His doctoral dissertation on the nineteenth-century German painter... Read full biography
Mathias Goeritz (complete name according to Spanish-speaking manner: Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner) was born April 4, 1915 in Danzig, Germany, now in Poland. He died August 4, 1990 in Mexico City. He was a well-known Mexican painter and sculptor of German origin. After spending much of the 1940s in North Africa and Spain, Goeritz and his wife, photographer Marianne Gast, immigrated to Mexico in 1949. Mathias Goeritz spent his childhood in Berlin. He began studying philosophy and the history of art at Berlin's Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität, now known as the Humboldt University of Berlin, in 1934. Goeritz received a doctorate in art history from this institution in 1940. His doctoral dissertation on the nineteenth-century German painter Ferdinand von Rayski was published as Ferdinand Von Rayski und die Kunst des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. During the course of his studies... Read full biography
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Mathias Goeritz (complete name according to Spanish-speaking manner: Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner) was born April 4, 1915 in Danzig, Germany, now in Poland. He died August 4, 1990 in Mexico City. He was a well-known Mexican painter and sculptor of German origin. After spending much of the 1940s in North Africa and Spain, Goeritz and his wife, photographer Marianne Gast, immigrated to Mexico in 1949.
Mathias Goeritz spent his childhood in Berlin. He began studying philosophy and the history of art at Berlin's Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität, now known as the Humboldt University of Berlin, in 1934. Goeritz received a doctorate in art history from this institution in 1940. His doctoral dissertation on the nineteenth-century ...But wait, there's more...
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