Juan Carlos Castagnino
Visual Artist
1908 – 1972
Who was Juan Carlos Castagnino?
Juan Carlos Castagnino was an Argentine painter, architect, muralist and sketch artist.
Born in the rural village of Camet, near the city of Mar del Plata, he studied in the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, and became a disciple of Lino Enea Spilimbergo and Ramón Gómez Cornet.
By the end of the 1920s, he became a member of the Communist Party of Argentina. In 1933 he joined the first Argentine artists' guild, and later that year he exhibited at the National Fine Arts Hall in Buenos Aires. His work, predominantly realist in his earlier years, became more figurative, later on, and though his Communist affiliation was reflected in numerous works with social undertones, he painted a wide variety of subject matter.
Along with Antonio Berni, Spilimbergo and Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, he created a series of murals for a villa belonging to local businessman Natalio Botana, in Don Torcuato. Castagnino traveled to Paris in 1939, where he attended the atelier of cubist painter André Lhote, later traveling across Europe perfecting his art and in the company of Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso, among others. Castagnino returned to Argentina in 1941, where he enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires and obtained a degree in architecture.
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- Born
- Nov 18, 1908
Mar del Plata - Nationality
- Argentina
- Education
- University of Buenos Aires
- Lived in
- Mar del Plata
- Died
- Apr 21, 1972
Buenos Aires
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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