Guillermo Wiedemann

The work of Guillermo Wiedemann is, without a doubt, one of the most solid and brilliant of Colombian art in the 20th century. Born in Germany, a country that he left before the Second World War, Wiedemann became a citizen of Colombia in 1946. In this adopted homeland the painter found not only his vital impulse but also the great motifs of his pictorial work. Dazzled by the mystery of the tropical jungle, he strongly expressed his spell in the early stages of his career. But his inexhaustible creative potential drives him toward breaking and searching. Line and shape give way to color and the painter decisively enters the field of the abstract. This book, a mandatory reference for art scholars, brings together for the first time a panoramic sample of Guillermo Wiedemann's work "from his European watercolors, his monotypes and his tropical paintings, to his first abstract paintings, his assemblages, his collages, everything." this presented by Santiago Mutis in a serious introductory work on the painter.