Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner
Early Life and Education
Born: April 4, 1915, Danzig, Germany (now Gdańsk, Poland)
Died: August 4, 1990, Mexico City
Origin: German-Mexican
Early life was spent in Berlin after his birth in Danzig.
Studied philosophy and art history at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität (Humboldt University of Berlin) from 1934.
Received a doctorate in art history in 1940 with a dissertation on Ferdinand von Rayski.
Trained as an artist at the
Kunstgewerbe- und Handwerkerschule in Berlin-Charlottenberg, studying drawing with Max Kaus and Hans Orlowski.
Career Development and Artistic Style
Worked at Berlin's Nationalgalerie (Alte Nationalgalerie) under Paul Ortwin Rave.
Left Germany in 1941, settling initially in Tetuan, Morocco.
Married photographer Marianne Gast in 1942 and settled in Granada, Spain.
First solo exhibition held in Madrid in 1946.
Immigrated to…
