David Manzoul, an iconic American artist with many honors in his life

David Manzoor

David Manzur Londoño was born in 1929 in Nela, Colombia. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bogota, the Art Students League of New York, and the Pratt Institute in the same city. At the age of 24, he had his first solo exhibition at the National Museum of Colombia. Most of them are figurative works, a genre that preceded abstract works and continued into the 1970s. Later, influenced by the Spanish Baroque, Manzur began a new phase of his figurative works, which included still lifes, echoes of St. Teresa, figures of St. Sebastian and histories. The picture uses horses as the main subject in various situations.

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After returning to Colombia in 1947, he settled in Bogotá and began studying art, music and acting. He had a brief theatrical career. He studied art at the School of Fine Arts in Bogotá, as well as at the Art Students League and Pratt Institute in New York, and was awarded two consecutive Guggenheim Fellowships and an Organization of American States Fellowship. While in the United States, he served as an assistant to Naum Gabo, the Russian constructivist sculptor and pioneer of kineticism.

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Master David Manzoor is known for his continual creation of works. A two-time Guggenheim Fellow, in 2019 Manzur was awarded Colombia’s highest peacetime decoration. In 2020, King Felipe VI awarded him the Order of the Catholic Order of Isabella in recognition of his work and ties with Spain. Currently he lives and works in Barichara, Santander, Colombia.

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