Roger Von Gunten
Dos desnudos en la playa, 1990
Silkscreen
23.75 x 31.5"
PA
Roger von Gunten is a Swiss painter and sculptor who became a naturalized Mexican citizen. He was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1933. He studied painting at the Zurich School...
Roger von Gunten is a Swiss painter and sculptor who became a naturalized Mexican citizen. He was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1933. He studied painting at the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts.
After completing his studies in painting and graphic design at the Kunstgewerbeschule under the direction of Johannes Itten, a color theorist of the Bauhaus school, he held his first exhibition in 1956 in his native Switzerland. In 1957, he came to Mexico with plans to travel south along the newly opened Pan-American Highway, but he ran out of money and stayed. He initially studied etching at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City with Guillermo Silva Santamaria, but, having little love for city life, soon moved to Tacámbaro in the State of Michoacán. Later, he moved to a home on the slopes of Tepozteco Mountain near the village of Tepoztlan, in Morelos.
He was a part of the movement known as Generación de la Ruptura (Breakaway Generation), which turned its back on the Mexican muralism of the previous generation of painters. It was a move away from formulaic social expression toward more personal, abstract expression of forms.
After completing his studies in painting and graphic design at the Kunstgewerbeschule under the direction of Johannes Itten, a color theorist of the Bauhaus school, he held his first exhibition in 1956 in his native Switzerland. In 1957, he came to Mexico with plans to travel south along the newly opened Pan-American Highway, but he ran out of money and stayed. He initially studied etching at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City with Guillermo Silva Santamaria, but, having little love for city life, soon moved to Tacámbaro in the State of Michoacán. Later, he moved to a home on the slopes of Tepozteco Mountain near the village of Tepoztlan, in Morelos.
He was a part of the movement known as Generación de la Ruptura (Breakaway Generation), which turned its back on the Mexican muralism of the previous generation of painters. It was a move away from formulaic social expression toward more personal, abstract expression of forms.
