Gonzalo Fonseca
Gonzalo Fonseca ( born July 2, 1922 in Montevideo, Uruguay; † 11 June 1997 Seravezza, Italy) was an Uruguayan sculptor and painter.
Fonseca was born as the son of the writer and engineer Rodolfo Fonseca in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. From 1942 to 1949 he was a student Joaquín Torres García. Fonseca, who has traveled to the pre-Columbian ruins of Bolivia and Peru and also visited archaeological sites in the Mediterranean and the Middle East as a source of inspiration, worked with, among others, in Syria with Lancaster Harding. He also studied architecture. Fonseca left Uruguay and then first lived in Paris until 1952 and settled in New York City in the United States in 1956. In the late 1950s, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and lived after moving to Manhattan in the aftermath alternately in the U.S. and Italy, where he had a studio near the town of Carrara. For the 1968 Olympic Games who created the going around twelve meter high concrete tower Torre de Vientos. At the Biennale di Venezia 1990, he represented his native country Uruguay.
Together with his wife Elizabeth Fonseca (born Kaplan ), whom he married in the mid-1950s and from whom he was divorced after about two decades, he had four children, the painter Caio Fonseca, Bruno Fonseca ( 1958-1994 ), the writer Isabel Fonseca Amis, as well as the designer Quina Fonseca Marvel.