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Filcer
Actress
oil on canvas
framed
140x110cm
Luis Filcer (Zhytomyr, Ukraine, 1927 – 2018, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico) was a Mexican expressionist visual artist. Filcer began his career as an artist in Mexico, where he had fled with his family in 1928, when he was only six months old, because of the persecution of the Jewish population after the Russian Revolution. At the age of sixteen, he began studying at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City. In the morning he took lessons and in the afternoon he worked on his paintings and drawings. In his artistic practice, Filcer was strongly influenced by the life of Vincent van Gogh and dealt with themes such as injustice and struggle in everyday life. He was also an admirer of the artists Francisco Goya and José Clemente Orozco. Subjects that Filcer portrayed include the Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968, the Las Vegas casinos, the Mexican Revolution of 1910, and the Mexico City Metro. Filcer's work does not show idealism, but investigates right and wrong to provoke change. Filcer lived and worked in the Netherlands for over twenty years, a large part of which in De Rijp (NH). His work has been exhibited more than 340 times in leading museums and galleries around the world. The work comes from the artist's heirs. 67554393
