Miriam Landau Biography
Myra Landau (5 December 1926 - 14 July 2018) born in Bucharest, was an abstract painter. Landau was born on December 5, 1926 in Bucharest, Romania. After numerous trips to Europe, he finally arrived in Brazil. Here, her great interest in artistic and intellectual life allowed her to meet painters such as Di Cavalcanti, Antonio Dias, Wesley Duke Lee, Francisco Brennand, Antonio Dias and João Camara, the sculptor Sergio Camargo, the writer Jorge Amado and the poet -musician-diplomat Vinicius de Morais, the musician-painter Dorival Caymmi.
Her early works were figurative, but gradually influenced by Dufy, she turned towards Expressionism. She was strongly influenced by her uncle Marcel Janco (one of the founders of Dadaism) and the Brazilian printmaker Oswaldo Goeldi.
She introduced a new metal etching technique, using acids, but printed from the surface, called “Metal Relief". She opened her first exhibition in Mexico in 1963 and gradually became one of the leading Latin American artists. She continued her in-depth research and she found her definitive expression in pastel painting on raw linen. Her thematic approach was also innovative: she was the first Latin American abstract painter to use free geometric line movements 1965 are called Rhythms.
In 1974, she began working as a teacher at the University of Veracruz, in the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 1975, she became a full-time researcher at the University's Institute of Aesthetics and Artistic Creation.
Landau has had more than sixty solo exhibitions, the most important of which took place in 1987 at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. He has participated in 150 group exhibitions in Mexico, France, Italy, Brazil, Chile, the United States and Cuba.
In 1994 she moved from Mexico to Rome, Italy, where she remained until 2010, and then moved to Jerusalem, Israel, where she lived for 6 years. Landau resided in the Netherlands for two years and died there on 14 July 2018.
