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Oswaldo was born Quito, capital of Ecuador, July 6, 1919. Tier is painter and sculptor at the School of Fine Arts in Quito. He staged his first exhibition when he was 23 years, in 1942. Obtained in his youth all National Awards and he was awarded in 1952, at 33 years, the Grand Prix later Espaayms Biennale Grand Prize of the Bienal de Sao Paulo. Died on March 10, 1999, at 79 years. His latest exhibits were personally...

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Oswaldo was born Quito, capital of Ecuador, July 6, 1919. Tier is painter and sculptor at the School of Fine Arts in Quito. He staged his first exhibition when he was 23 years, in 1942. Obtained in his youth all National Awards and he was awarded in 1952, at 33 years, the Grand Prix later Espaayms Biennale Grand Prize of the Bienal de Sao Paulo. Died on March 10, 1999, at 79 years. His latest exhibits were personally inaugurated the Luxembourg Palace Museum in the Museum Parsy Palais de Glace in Buenos Aires in 1995. Until shortly before his death was working on his masterpiece, called "The Chapel of Man." He has exhibited in museums in all the capitals of America, and many countries in Europe, as in Leningrad (LErmitage) MoscPraga, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, ??Warsaw. Realizunas 180 solo exhibitions and his production was very fructfera in paintings, murals, sculptures and monuments. He has murals in Quito (Government and Legislative Palaces, Universidad Central, Provincial Council), Madrid (Barajas Airport), Paris (UNESCO Headquarters) Sao Paulo (Latin American Parliament). Its monuments include "A la Patria Joven" (Guayaquil, Ecuador), "The Resistance" (Rumiahui) in Quito. His work humanist expressionism Seale, reflects the pain and misery that supports most of mankind and denounces violence that has lived human beings in this mounstruoso twentieth century marked by world wars, civil wars , genocide, concentration camps, dictatorships, torture. Guayasamn was a personal friend of the most important intellectuals and statesmen of the progressive world, and has portrayed some of them, like Fidel and Ral Castro, Francois and Danielle Mitterrand, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rigoberta Mench among others. Recibivarias and official decorations honorary doctorates from universities in America and Europe.

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