Mathias Goeritz (complete name according to Spanish-speaking manner: Werner Matthias Goeritz Brunner) (April 4, 1915 in Danzig (Gdańsk), Germany (now in Poland)) - August 4, 1990 in Mexico City) was a well-known Mexican painter and sculptor of German origin. Being of Jewish origin, Goeritz moved from his homeland to Mexico during the Second World War.[1][2]
Mathias Goeritz spent his childhood in Berlin. He first studied medicine, but changed direction when he started his Philosophy major at the Friedrich Wilhelms Universitat. He finally graduated with a doctorate in art history from this institution, now known as the Humboldt University. His training as an artist was made at the Berlin Charlottenburg School of Art, where he studied drawing. With the pressure mounting from the Second World War, Goeritz had to leave Germany and settled first in Tetuan, Morocco in 1941, Granada, Spain in 1945 and Santilla del Mar in 1948 where he founded the Escuela de Altamira.
With the help of Ignacio Diaz Morales, he found a job as a professor of Architecture at the University of Guadalajara in 1949. By then he was an accomplished artist and in 1953 his rise to fame in Mexico came when he published his "Manifiesto de la Arquitectura Emocional" (The Emotional Architecture Manifesto). In this essay he argued that architecture could only be called art it achieved true emotions from the spectator. He also founded the Museo del Eco in Mexico City this same year. This museum would later be abandoned until its renovation in 2005. He collaborated with Luis Barragan to make monumental sculptures in Mexico City. His most noted works are El Animal and the Torres de Satellite where his friends Luis Barragan and Chucho Reyes were also involved.
Mathias Goeritz exhibited widely in Europe and America, sometimes under the pseudonym "Mago". His art is a mixture of Dadaism, Expressionism and Constructivism that he called Geometrism and influenced a whole generation of Mexican artists for over two decades. He died in Mexico City on August 4, 1990.
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