Antonio Máro

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Antonio Máro (* 1928 in Catacaos , Piura , Northern Peru ) is a Peruvian artist and former doctor living in Belgium .

Life

Residence, studio and headquarters of the Rafael Ramírez Academy in Hauset

Born as Apolo Ramírez Zapata, the artist started painting as a child. His first teacher was Ricardo Grau (1907–1970), a native of Belgium, who at the time was appointed director of the Lima Art Academy . Nevertheless, Ramírez decided to first take up a medical degree, which he completed in Germany from 1950 and after which he acquired the specialist qualification as a gynecologist .

In his free time, Máro continued to paint and then completed additional studies with Willi Baumeister at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . At the end of the 1960s he finally gave up the medical profession in order to deal exclusively with art from then on under the stage name Antonio Máro. He was close friends with César Manrique .

Máro has been awarded several prizes, including:

  • 1983 with the cultural promotion award of the city of Aachen,
  • 1984 with the Prize of the Government of the Principality of Monaco,
  • 1986 with the culture award of the "Foire d'Art Internacional d'Aquitaine"
  • 1986 with the "Medaille d'Argent"
  • 1986 with the culture award of the city of Bordeaux
  • 1994 with the "Culture Prize of the City of Rome"
  • with the Order of El Sol del Perú , the highest badge in the country

In addition, Máro was accepted as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1988 and a year later as a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Since 1979, Máro has lived in the former Villa Bohlen on the banks of the Göhl in Hauset , Belgium , where General Dwight D. Eisenhower set up his quarters during the Second World War . He was married to his wife Susanne Quellmalz, who died in 2007 and gave birth to four children. His son Rafael Ramírez also became a well-known painter and founded the Rafael Ramírez Academy in their home in 2011. Father and son are also enthusiastic musicians, Antonio as a piano accompanist and Rafael as a violinist. Sometimes they also appear in public as a duo, with everything from classical to jazz. Rafael's younger brother Alexander-Sergei Ramírez (* 1962) is a professor for guitar at the Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf and his youngest brother Benjamin Ramirez is a violinist at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne and is married to the violinist Ute Hasenauer .

Works

The spiritual roots of Máros works lie in the pre-Columbian art and culture of his native Peru. He knows how to combine his native culture with the culture of Europe in his works. In addition to painting, he also devotes himself to the production of etchings and lithographs as well as sculptures made of wood, stainless steel, bronze, ceramics and glass.

As one of his first highlights, Máro and his son Rafael-Ramírez created the picture “Inti huatana” (“Resting place for the sun”) in Meinerzhagen in 1978 , which is one of the largest oil paintings of the 20th century with a size of 6 by 20 m is. A year later, the order for four large-format oil paintings (2 × 3 m) for the foyer of the town hall in Hilden followed . He then achieved his final breakthrough in the 1980s with his own pavilion at the São Paulo Biennale and the Venice Biennale . Further invitations to major national and international solo and group exhibitions at renowned galleries and museums followed, including in Vienna (1996), Beijing and Jakarta (1998), New York and Washington DC (1990, 1996 and 1999), Luxembourg (2001) , as well as several times in Latin American countries.

Between 2015 and 2017, at almost 90 years of age, Máro received the major order to paint a picture for each room and each floor of the Hamburg hotel The Fontenay , a total of several hundred individual works.

literature

  • Susan Máro, Ute Zimmer: In the magic of the Tamarindo hill - life and work of Antonio Máro . AixTra Media GmbH Aachen, 2009
  • Antonio Máro: Hétérochromies. Ed. R. de Bernardi, Aachen 1991, ISBN 3-923099-89-4 .
  • Antonio Máro: paintings, drawings, sculptures (works 1980–1989). Exhibition catalog. Texts: Wolfgang Becker, Hans Haufe, Bélgica Rodríguez. New Gallery - Ludwig Collection, Aachen 1989.
  • Ernst Günther Grimme , Adam C. Oellers : Antonio Máro: Paintings, sculptures, drawings. Arthur Niggli, Niederteufen (CH) 1983, ISBN 3-7212-0164-7 .
  • Lon Blum, Antonio Máro: The challenge to Antonio Máro: the unusual. Documentation about the emergence and growth of a creative process. ConZepke-Verlag, Monheim 1978 (about the creation of "Inti-Huatana" - resting place of the sun).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antonio Máro on botschaft-peru.de
  2. ↑ Portrait of Rafael Ramirez Máro on the page of the music studio and gallery: Gabriele Paqué , accessed on June 20, 2018.
  3. ^ Website of the Rafael Ramírez Academy
  4. ↑ Vita Alexander-Sergei Ramírez
  5. ↑ Vita Benjamin Ramírez on the pages of RMI Instrumental
  6. ↑ Homepage of the city of Meinerzhagen , accessed on June 20, 2018.
  7. ↑ Homepage of the Hotel The Fontenay accessed on September 16, 2019
  8. ↑ Sibylle Offergeld: color glow pulsates through the imagery of life , in Grenz-Echo from September 29, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Máro, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apolo Ramírez Zapata (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Catacaos , Peru