Aizenberg, Roberto (1928–1998)
Aizenberg, Roberto (1928–1998)
Roberto Aizenberg (b. 22 August 1928), Argentine painter and printmaker. Born in Villa Federal, province of Entre Ríos, Aizenberg studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires, receiving a degree in 1954. He later studied painting with Juan Battle Planas. Aizenberg achieved a level of maturity quite early in life. His images relate to the subjective world of the unconscious and continue the surrealistic tradition exemplified in Argentina by Battle Planas. He received the Palanza Prize (Buenos Aires, 1967) and the Cassandra Foundation Award (Chicago, 1970). From 1977 to 1981, he lived in Paris, later moving to Milan for one year and then back to Argentina. In 1985–1986, and again in 1993, he taught painting at Buenos Aires' Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. He died in Buenos Aires on February 16, 1998.
See alsoArt: The Twentieth Century .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Vicente Gesualdo, Aldo Viglione, and Rodolfo Santos, Diccionario de artistas plásticos en la Argentina (1988).
Additional Bibliography
Aizenberg, Roberto, and Marcelo E. Pacheco. El caso Roberto Aizenberg: Obras 1950–1994. Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Recoleta, 2001.
Day, Holliday T., and Hollister Sturges. Art of the Fantastic: Latin America, 1920–1987. Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1987.
Amalia Cortina Aravena