Xul Solar

Xul Solar , actually Oscar Agustín Alexander Schulz Solari , (born December 14, 1887 in San Fernando , Province of Buenos Aires , † April 9, 1963 in Tigre ) was an Argentine artist and painter.

Oscar Agustín Alexander Schulz Solari - Xul Solar

Life

From 1912 to 1924, Xul Solar traveled through Europe and met artists who welcomed the avant-garde movement in Europe. From them he got to know various art movements such as cubism , futurism , expressionism and surrealism . The different aspects of these art movements had a strong influence on the young artist. But the most important person was Paul Klee . In addition to the preference for colors, there was enough space for symbols in his paintings, in which he used the sun, castles, paths as well as mountains, snakes, labyrinths and signs.

After his return to Buenos Aires in 1924, Xul Solar opened his first solo exhibition. At the time, Que magazine described him as the forerunner in the implementation of the artistic principles of Surrealism in Argentina. Among other things, he invented the game El Panjuego , a kind of chess game in three dimensions, in which a letter, a note and a color emerged on every move. In this way, a poem , a piece of music and a painting were created during the game .

Xul Solar was a central figure of Argentine surrealism and at the same time a scholar with encyclopedic knowledge. He was interested in religion , philosophy, as well as Kabbalah and astrology . He mastered six living languages ​​as well as Latin , ancient Greek and Sanskrit . In his drawings, watercolors and mostly small-format paintings, geometrically human figures and esoteric and archaic symbols dominate.

In Buenos Aires there is a Museo Xul Solar , in whose rooms numerous works and writings by the artist are exhibited.

Web links

• Website of the Museo Xul Solar