Sergio de Castro

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Sergio de Castro 1980

Sergio de Castro (born September 15, 1922 in Buenos Aires , Argentina , † December 31, 2012 in Paris ) was an Argentine-French painter .

Sergio de Castro is considered one of the most important representatives of abstract painting after the Second World War.

Sergio de Castro was born in Buenos Aires on September 15, 1922 to Argentinian parents of Spanish descent (from Galicia and the Basque Country ). He spent his childhood in French-speaking Switzerland from 1923 to 1932 and lived in Argentina for seven years of his youth (from 1942 to 1949). In November 1949 he moved to Paris , where he lived until his death. He became a French citizen in 1979.

Sergio de Castro originally studied architecture and music in Montevideo from 1933 to 1942 . From 1941 to 1949 he studied with Joaquín Torres García in Buenos Aires . He was assistant to Manuel de Falla from 1945 to 1946.

From 1951 de Castro worked exclusively as a freelance painter. In 1959 he was a participant in documenta 2 in Kassel . He was awarded the Hallmark Prize in New York in 1960 . In 1979 he was promoted to Chevalier and in 1997 to Officier des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

From 1981 to 1986 he was visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg .

He created numerous monumental paintings, wall paintings and window designs, including:

From 1987 to 1989 he designed the hall of the Atochem company in Paris - La Défense .

Important exhibitions (selection)

  • 1952 Galerie Jeanne Castel Paris
  • 1954 Galería Bonino Buenos Aires and Galerie Pierre Loeb, Paris
  • 1956 Galerie Ríve Gauche, Paris
  • 1958 Matthiesen Gallery, London
  • 1959 documenta 2 art after 1945 Kassel
  • 1961 Matthiesen Gallery, London
  • 1963 Galería Lorenzelli, Bérgamo
  • 1964 Galería Bettíe Thommen, Basilea
  • 1965 Kunstverein Hamburg retrospective
  • 1966 Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Friborg, Switzerland / Cathedral Gallery, Cologne
  • 1970 Retrospectives in Oslo , Kunstforering, y Kunst Industriemuseet, Copenhagen
  • 1972 Galería Wildenstein, London Landscapes of Light
  • 1974 Galerie Jacob, Paris
  • 1975 Kunsthalle Bremen , retrospective
  • 1979 Valmay Gallery, Paris
  • 1980 39th Venice Biennale
  • 1987 French Institute London. Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, retrospective
  • 1988 Galerie des Ambassades y Galerie Galarte, Sergio de Castro, Natures Mortes, 1958–1965. París / Museo Diocesano de Arte Religioso, Bayeux

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personal data
SURNAME Castro, Sergio de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine-French painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2012
Place of death Paris