Monumentalists Symbolism
Oswaldo Guayasamín is an Ecuadorian painter, muralist and sculptor.
Oswaldo's father was an Indian, and the family was very poor, but the future artist was educated at the School of Fine Arts of Quito. Soon, literally in two years, he created a cycle of 103 paintings dedicated to the life of oppressed Indians in Latin America. Oswaldo Guayasamin also painted portraits of famous contemporaries, including Fidel Castro, whom he admired. He also created murals, frescoes, landscapes, and symbolic images.
The artist's works were exhibited in Paris, Moscow and in Leningrad, among other cities around the world, with amazing success. In 1957, at the Fourth Biennial in São Paulo, he was named the best South American artist.
Guayasamin was also a passionate collector. In 1978, the then famous artist donated to the State of Ecuador some 500 colonial paintings and sculptures, pre-Columbian archaeological sites, Goya and Picasso paintings that he had collected.
Ludwig von Herterich was a German painter of the late nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries. He is known as a painter, teacher, younger brother and pupil of the famous painter Johann Herterich.
Ludwig von Herterich was mainly engaged in portrait and historical-monumental painting, he participated in the artistic design of the Wolfsbrunn Castle in the Ore Mountains. He is considered one of the brightest representatives of the Munich school of painting. He was a member of the Munich Secession and the German Artists' Association. He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit for Science and Arts, King Ludwig III also awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown. This entitled the artist to personal nobility and he was allowed to mention his family name with the prefix "von".