Gunther Gerzso - A New Vision. Gunther Gerzso was born on June 17, 1915 in Mexico City. Gerzso's Hungarian-born father, Oscar, had migrated to Mexico in the early 1890s along with his wife who was a... Read full biography
Gunther Gerzso - A New Vision. Gunther Gerzso was born on June 17, 1915 in Mexico City. Gerzso's Hungarian-born father, Oscar, had migrated to Mexico in the early 1890s along with his wife who was a singer and pianist. In 1927, Gunther Gerzso was sent to Switzerland to live with his Uncle, an art... Read full biography
Gunther Gerzso - A New Vision. Gunther Gerzso was born on June 17, 1915 in Mexico City. Gerzso's Hungarian-born father, Oscar, had migrated to Mexico in the early 1890s along with his wife who was a singer and pianist. In 1927, Gunther Gerzso was sent to Switzerland to live with his Uncle, an art collector, dealer, and art historian. This would be the only formal artistic education that he would receive. "He had this house in [Lugano] Switzerland. I lived with them and I was surrounded by... Read full biography
Gunther Gerzso - A New Vision. Gunther Gerzso was born on June 17, 1915 in Mexico City. Gerzso's Hungarian-born father, Oscar, had migrated to Mexico in the early 1890s along with his wife who was a singer and pianist. In 1927, Gunther Gerzso was sent to Switzerland to live with his Uncle, an art collector, dealer, and art historian. This would be the only formal artistic education that he would receive. "He had this house in [Lugano] Switzerland. I lived with them and I was surrounded by masterpieces. I wasn't interested but they drilled into me how to look at paintings and what a painting is, and so forth. I suppose during these five or six years that I was there I had to learn something.". ". If we traveled in Italy the first thing was... Read full biography
Gunther Gerzso - A New Vision. Gunther Gerzso was born on June 17, 1915 in Mexico City. Gerzso's Hungarian-born father, Oscar, had migrated to Mexico in the early 1890s along with his wife who was a singer and pianist. In 1927, Gunther Gerzso was sent to Switzerland to live with his Uncle, an art collector, dealer, and art historian. This would be the only formal artistic education that he would receive. "He had this house in [Lugano] Switzerland. I lived with them and I was surrounded by masterpieces. I wasn't interested but they drilled into me how to look at paintings and what a painting is, and so forth. I suppose during these five or six years that I was there I had to learn something.". ". If we traveled in Italy the first thing was always to go to the museum. You had to stand in front of the paintings and say what you thought an... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (3)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920-1970