ARTIST: Kurt Larisch (Austrian, Mexico, 1913 - 2009)
NAME: P-90
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Excellent. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 24 x 28 inches / 60 x 70 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed
SIGNATURE: Lower left and on verso
SIMILAR ARTISTS: Roberto Montenegro, Humberto Oramas, Francisco Corzas, Armando Amaya, Gustavo Arias Murrueta, Arturo Morin, Irma Palacios, Francisco Zuniga, Carlos Merida, Philip Kelly, Gabriel Ramirez, Enrique "Sebastian" Carbajal, Jose Antonio Gurtubay, Rosendo Perez Pinacho, Gabriel Macotela, Diego Rivera
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
SKU#: 115626
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Kurt Larisch (Austrian, Mexico, 1913 - 2009)
Kurt Larisch was born into a family of third generation artists in Vienna, Austria in 1913. He was first exposed to art in his grandfather's sculpture studio and in the photography and painting atelier of his father. He establishing himself as a graphic artist and was one of the first in Europe to involve himself in the new field of animated film.
In 1938 political instability interrupted his work and Kurt Larisch found himself in England, then in India. He became art director in one of India's new and most progressive advertising agencies. There were 25 major languages to deal with; it was a challenge which left a deep impression on him.
At the same time he continued to paint in the conventional manner having five one-man shows during his eight years in the country. There were troubled times, and he was not unaffected by what he saw prior to India's independence. For five weeks he was interred as an enemy alien. Released, he became art director for the firm recruiting for the British Armed Forces in India. He met his wife in Calcutta in 1939 and in 1947, with a daughter, the family moved to the USA.
At each state Kurt Larisch acquired another view, another inspiration. He absorbed what his new environment in New York offered, then opened his own Graphic Art Studio. He continued to paint in a conventional manner, but felt that something was lacking. Having visited Mexico several times, he realized a move there would give him the motivation, freedom and independence to develop and concentrate on his own ideas without having to cater to commercial demands. His family moved there in 1970.
They traveled widely in the country, sensitive to yet another history and culture, until he was propelled into abandoning traditional techniques for an art form influenced by every culture he had encountered. He became one of Mexico's most celebrated contemporary artists (as listed by Amistad - magazine of the American Society in Mexico). He developed a style and technique he felt more appropriate for a complicated world, and more appropriate for a questing youthful audience.
Kurt Larisch was obsessed with man's predicament in a world hell-bent on self destruction. His Kafkaesque, surrealistic message is, as one critic put it, "a civilized protest against dehumanization."
In his work with bright colors, Kurt Larisch expresses a critical view of conformity and dehumanization through large geometric elements that include masses of tiny human figures.