(b. Barranco, Lima, Peru, 1925).
This Peruvian painter and teacher was born to a Polish father and a Peruvian mother. He studied architecture before transferring in 1944 to the Escuela de Artes Plásticas at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima, where he was taught by Adolf Winternitz (b. 1906), under whom he developed an initial abstract style. In 1948 he traveled to Paris, holding his first exhibition there the following year. He spent the next few years in Paris and Florence, absorbing the influence of the old masters, as well as that of Picasso and other leading 20th-century artists, and developing a style that combined a loosely Abstract Expressionist language with Pre-Columbian themes and forms expressed in strong colors and textures. In 1951 Szyszlo returned to Lima, where his style was something of a novelty. Following the establishment in the mid-1950s of the Instituto de Arte Contemporaneo in Lima, he formed the group Espacio to help pr
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