| LC control no. | n 94020027 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Dittborn, Eugenio |
| Variant(s) | Dittborn Santa Cruz, Eugenio Santa Cruz, Eugenio Dittborn Cruz, Eugenio Dittborn Santa |
| Associated place | Madrid (Spain) Paris (France) Berlin (Germany) |
| Located | Santiago (Chile) |
| Birth date | 1943 |
| Place of birth | Santiago (Chile) |
| Affiliation | Avanzada Nacional (Organization : Chile) Universidad de Chile, Taller de Operaciones Visuales Universidad de Chile, Escuela de Bellas Artes |
| Profession or occupation | Painter Engraver Printmaker Conceptual artist Visual artist |
| Found in | Pastor Mellado, J. El fantasma de la sequía, 1988: t.p. (Eugenio Dittborn) Mundana, 1997: t.p. (Eugenio Dittborn) p. 193 (b. 1943 in Santiago, Chile) Encyclopedia website, March 25, 2020: (Eugenio Dittborn; born 1943 in Santiago, Chile; artist; studied painting and printmaking at universities in Chile and Europe from 1962 to 1969; like many Chilean artists of his generation, he rejects traditional painting and the conservative values he believes it embodies; in the 1970s Dittborn became a leading member of the Avanzada, a group of Chilean artists and critics who developed an artistic language of metaphor and analogy related to conceptual art, in part to criticize General Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship; in 1983 he produced his first Pinturas Aeropostales (Airmail Paintings), the works for which he has become best known; resident of Santiago; conceptual artist) <https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/dittborn-eugenio-1943> Universidad de Chile website, March 25, 2020: posted August 2005 (Eugenio Dittborn Santa Cruz; Eugenio Dittborn; visual artist; Prof. Eugenio Dittborn won Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas 2005; born 1943 in Santiago; studied painting, drawing, and engraving at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Chile (1962-1965); spent time in Paris, Madrid, and Berlin; in 1997 began the Taller de Operaciones Visuales of the Magíster en Artes Visuales of the Facultad de Artes; one of his most well-known works is Pinturas Aeropostales) <https://www.uchile.cl/portal/presentacion/historia/grandes-figuras/premios-nacionales/artes/8806/eugenio-dittborn-santa-cruz> |
| Associated language | spa |
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