Kunstauktionshaus Neumeister
Sculpture Classic Modern — September-Auktion 2024: Kunsthandwerk und Antiquitäten
25.09.2024 14:00 UTC +02:002024-09-25T14:00:00+02:00Germany, München, Barer Str. 37Kunstauktionshaus Neumeister
München,
Germany
Lot 402 Mathias Goeritz
Matthias Goeritz (1915 - 1990) 
Matthias Goeritz
04.04.1915 - 04.08.1990
Mexico
Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner was a Mexican painter and sculptor of German origin. After spending much of the 1940s in North Africa and Spain, he and his wife, photographer Marianne Gast, immigrated to Mexico in 1949.
In 1953 he first presented his "Manifiesto de la Arquitectura Emocional" (Emotional Architecture Manifesto) at the pre-inauguration of the Museo Experimental El Eco in Mexico City, which he designed in 1952-53. During the 1950s, Goeritz also collaborated with Luis Barragán to make monumental abstract sculptures in reinforced concrete, including El animal del Pedregal (The Animal of the Pedregal, 1951) and the Torres de la Ciudad Satélite (Towers of Satellite City, 1957).
