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Mathias Goeritz

1915–1990

Cross in a Box, Project for a Cathedral 1960–1
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Biography

Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner (4 April 1915, Danzig, German Empire – 4 August 1990, Mexico City) was a Mexican painter and sculptor of German origin. After spending much of the 1940s in North Africa and Spain, he and his wife, photographer Marianne Gast, immigrated to Mexico in 1949.

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  • Cross in a Box, Project for a Cathedral

    Mathias Goeritz
    1960–1
  • oro

    Mathias Goeritz
    1965
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  • Message

    Mathias Goeritz
    c.1959
  • Five Conical Towers

    Mathias Goeritz
    1963–70
  • Projects for La Defense (Doors to Nothingness)

    Mathias Goeritz
    1971
  • Doors to Nothingness (Project for La Defense - Sketch)

    Mathias Goeritz
    c.1971
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