César Moro

César Moro (aka: Alfredo Quispez Asin, born August 19, 1903 in Lima, † January 10, 1956 ibid ) was a Peruvian surrealist painter and poet.

Moro taught himself as a painter and signed in 1921, his first painting with " César Moro " after a character in a novel by Ramón Gómez de la Serna. In 1925 he went to Paris, where he met the group of Surrealists around André Breton. He began ballet training and worked as a painter and poet. His first painting exhibitions were held in 1926 and 1927. From 1928 until his return to Lima he wrote poems mainly in French and published the poetry collection Ces poèmes.

With Emilio Adolfo Westphalen Moro organized in 1935 at the Academia Alcedo in Lima the first Surrealismusaustellung Latin America, in which, inter alia, Jaime Dvor, Waldo Parra Dominguez, Gabriela Rivadeneira, Carlos Sotomayor and Maria Valencia involved.

In 1938, he left Peru for political reasons and went to Mexico, where he worked on the magazine El hijo prodigo with Xavier Villaurrutia. In 1940 he organized with Wolfgang paals and André Breton, the Fourth International Surrealismusausstellung at the Galería de Arte Mexicano with works by Pablo Picasso, Agustín Lazo Adalid and Salvador Dali. In 1948 he returned to Lima, where he lived in retirement until his death. His estate was managed by his friend, the French poet André Coyne.

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• Author
• Painter of Surrealism
• Poetry
• Literature ( French)
• Peruvian
• Born in 1903
• Died in 1956
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