Enrique Puelma
Enrique Puelma (born May 21, 1914 in Santiago de Chile ; † February 22, 1991 ) was a German-Chilean graphic designer and artist.
Life
Enrique Puelma was born on May 21, 1914, the son of a painter in Santiago de Chile . For family reasons he came to Germany early and trained as a graphic designer and artist in Munich , among other places . After the outbreak of the Second World War , he traveled to Switzerland , where he attended lectures on art history in Zurich . In 1960 he took up residence in Gockhausen near Dübendorf , Canton Zurich . Puelma ran a studio for cinema advertising for fourteen years, after which he owned his own studio for advertising graphics in Dübendorf.
In addition to his bread-and-butter job, he exercised artistic activities in various areas: on the one hand, he devoted himself to landscape painting , on the other hand, he made homoerotic drawings , some of which were published in the journal Der Kreis . Puelma used the pseudonym "Rico" for this - not to be confused with the painter "Ricco" (Erich Wassmer). From 1974 to 1976 he also drew booklets 57 to 60 of the Lurchis Adventure series .
Puelma died on February 22, 1991. His homoerotic estate is in the Swiss Gay Archives (deposit in the Swiss Social Archives in Zurich). His advertising estate is in the graphics collection of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.
exhibition
- Town house and town gallery Dübendorf ZH, 1999
literature
- Karl-Heinz Steinle : The circle: members, artists, authors . Rosa Winkel, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86149-093-5 (incorrectly spelled “Puelmas”).
Web links
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- ↑ Lurchi online ( Memento from August 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Puelma, Enrique |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rico (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Chilean graphic designer and artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1991 |