Osvaldo Romberg
Argentine artist (1938-2019)
Osvaldo Romberg (Hebrew: אוסוולדו רומברג; 28 May 1938 – 26 November 2019) was an Argentine artist, curator, and professor. He lived and worked in Israel, Philadelphia, New York, and Isla Grande, Brazil.
Life and career
Romberg was born in Buenos Aires in 1938. His parents were Jewish immigrants who emigrated to Argentina. He attended high school at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. After graduating in 1955, he studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires between 1956 and 1962.
He taught Painting and Color Theory at different universities in Argentina and Latin America until he was forced to flee the Argentine Dirty War, in 1973. He then settled in Israel, where he taught at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design for 20 years. In 1993, he began teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
His paintings, books, installations, films, and architectural watercolors have been exhibited internationally.
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