Nan cuz

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Nan Cuz , née Irmgard Cuz Heinemann (born January 27, 1927 in Secoyocte, Municipio de Senahú , in Alta Verapaz , Guatemala ; † November 11, 2019 in Panajachel , Guatemala) was a German - Guatemalan painter .

Life

Nan Cuz was born in 1927 as Irmgard Cuz Heinemann in Alta Verapaz , Guatemala . Her mother was a Maya - Q'eqchi , her father was German . She grew up with her mother on a coffee plantation in the Central American jungle, while her father returned to Germany and married there. When she was seven, she was brought to Germany by her future stepmother. Although the agreement was that she would return to her mother after finishing school, the Second World War and its aftermath prevented this.

Nan Cuz's father was an accomplished photographer and taught her the craft. After her photographic activity, she began painting portraits a few years later .

Through her interest in parapsychology and border sciences , she met the painter and writer Georg Schaefer , whom she married in 1950. Inspired and motivated by her husband, Nan Cuz began to express her childhood memories through art. After receiving artistic recognition in Europe, she received an invitation from the wife of the Guatemalan President Julio César Méndez Montenegro in 1968 . The couple then decided to move to Guatemala with their two children in 1971. In Panajachel they opened the art center La Galeria Nan Cuz , which is now run by Cuz's son Thomas Schäfer.

Schäfer and Cuz separated in 1978. A year later, Cuz met Horst Köhler, whom she later married and with whom she lived until his death in 1995.

Nan Cuz died at the age of 92 on November 11, 2019 in Panajachel, Guatemala.

plant

The indelible impressions of her childhood, the glowing, shining power of the sun, the bond with the animals, with the always fragrant vegetation and, last but not least, with her mother, had left her with a longing that urged elementary expression. For this reason, in 1950, Nan Cuz began to put down in pictures what she saw in dreams and visions.

With brushes and paints she created scenes in which motifs from myths and legends from Indian everyday life predominate. She used various techniques, including relief painting and screen printing . The works are determined by intense coloring. Her interest in world religions, especially Cosmovision Maya and Buddhism , is particularly evident in her later works, which primarily deal with spiritually inspired topics.

From 1957 Nan Cuz had numerous exhibitions in u. a. Museum of Ethnology , Hamburg (1960); Übersee-Museum , Bremen (1961); Galerie Stenzel, Munich (1961); Meyers Art Gallery, Esbjerg (1963); Galerie Commeter , Hamburg (1965).

In 1968 Nan Cuz and Georg Schäfer's book Im Reiche des Mescál , an illustrated fairy tale for adults based on Indian folklore, was published. Miguel Ángel Asturias wrote the preface . A short time later it became a cult book of the hippie movement and was translated into several languages.

literature

  • The birth of the sun. Indian tales from Latin America . Retold by Harri Findeisen. Illustrated by Nan Cuz. Union Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8139-5623-7 .
  • In the realm of Mescál. An Indian legend. Georg Schäfer (author), Nan Cuz (illustrations). Synthesis, Essen 1968, ISBN 3-922026-13-3 .
  • Native American painting by Nan Cuz. Rostock art gallery, Rostock 1968
  • Nan cuz. Magia y Emociones. Fundación Paiz para la Educación y la Cultura, Ciudad de Guatemala, 2017, ISBN 978-9929-8132-6-7 .

Filmography

  • Burning pen. Seeing Heart - Nan Cuz, a German-Indian painter . Production, script and direction: Anja Krug-Metzinger, Radio Bremen / Arte, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nan Cuz - Artist Profile Guatemala - Revue Magazine. Retrieved February 26, 2020 (American English).
  2. ^ A b Administración: Nan Cuz - Artist Profile Guatemala. In: Continental Spanish Academy. June 27, 2017, Retrieved February 26, 2020 (American English).
  3. ^ Galeria Panajachel - art gallery and cultural center. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .
  4. ↑ eART.de Nan Cuz. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Cuz, Nan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinemann, Irmgard Cuz (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Guatemalan painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Secoyocte, Municipio de Senahú , Alta Verapaz , Guatemala
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2019
Place of death Panajachel , Guatemala