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Scope and Contents This book is one of 1000 copies in English, another 1000 copies were printed in Spanish. Wikipedia: Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner (1915-1990) was born in Danzig, Germany (now in Poland) and died in Mexico City). After spending much of the 1940s in North Africa and Spain, Goeritz and his wife, photographer Marianne Gast, immigrated to Mexico in 1949. Some books state that he was Jewish, others Protestant.In Mexico, he did commisions for churces and synagogues. Mathias Goeritz spent his childhood in Berlin. Goeritz received a doctorate in art history from Berlin's Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universitat, now known as the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1940. During the course of his studies, Goeritz also trained as an artist at the Kunstgewerbe- und Handwerkerschule Berlin-Charlottenberg (Berlin-Charlottenberg School of Arts and Crafts), where he studied drawing with German artists Max Kaus and Hans Orlowski. Upon completion of his doctorate, Goeritz worked at Berlin's Nationalgalerie...

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This book documents and illustrates Goeritz's career beginning in Germany and continuing mainly in Mexico. A chapter consisting of six pages depicts his concrete poems from 1959 - 1968. This definitive biography of Goeritz was written by Lily Kassner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.