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Rodolfo Zagert

Argentinian painter and architect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ6110612
Source-derived summary

Rodolfo Zagert is an Argentinian painter and architect. He first studied art and architecture in Buenos Aires and later continued his studies in (Germany), where he got a scholarship. In 1991 he moved to Palma de Mallorca, his architectural work focusing on historic building restoration. For one project, the restoration of a sixteenth-century palace, he was awarded the Premio Ciudad de Palma in 1999. In his art work he uses mixed techniques, on paper or canvas.

His first exhibition as a painter was in 1969 at the age of 19. His work has been featured in exhibitions from then until the present (2016).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rodolfo Zagert” is argentinian painter and architect. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rodolfo, Zagert and Argentinian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1999, 1969, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950-03-15. For this dossier, Rodolfo, Zagert and Argentinian is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6110612. VIAF identifies the subject as 7226506. The Library of Congress control number is nr00003510. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 1999, 1969 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from Rodolfo Zagert” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.