Germán Cueto

Mexico, 1893 –  Mexico, 1975

Germán Cueto was a Mexican painter and sculptor. His first trip to Spain was in 1916, and during the 1920s he was part of the “estridentista” group, exhibiting at the Café de Nadie.

From 1927 to 1932 he lived in Paris together with his wife Lola Velázquez Cueto, where thanks to his cousin María Blanchard he came into contact with great figures of the avant-garde such as Brancusi, Julio González, Henri Laurens, Lipchitz, and above all Torres-García.

In 1929 he exhibited some of his famous masks in Barcelona, ​​in Dalmau. In 1930 he became a member of the group of abstract artists in Paris “Cercle et Carré”, founded by Torres-García and Michel Seuphor. After his return to Mexico he maintained contact with Torres-García, dedicated himself to abstract sculpture, and founded, together with others, the so-called “estridentista” group. In 1964 Cueto saw his work recognized at the second Sculpture Biennial of Mexico for which he received an honorable mention, and in 1967 he was crowned at the third Sculpture Biennial for his bronze “Circonvolución”. German Cueto was part of the Academy of Arts since 1968, being one of its founding members, and he died in Mexico on February 14, 1975.