Luis Strempler Vivanco, a painter, sculptor, and muralist, was born in Mexico City in 1928. He has created 3 murals and 21 public sculptures. He also worked on set designs and scripts for the film industry and was a pioneer in animated drawings for this field.
Awards and Recognitions
1944 Medal in Drawing, ENAP UNAM. 1945 Scholarship in UNAM competition, Mexico City. 1946 Luis Sahagun Award.
1970 Bibliography in Gutiérrez and Roukes’ “Painting with Acrylics,” published by Watson Guptill, New York.
1970 Trophy “God of the Jaguar of Palenque.” Mexican Plastic Artists.
1975 G.D.A. Cultural Award, Mexico City.
1977 Encyclopedia of Mexico, Volume 11, etc.
He has participated in over a hundred exhibitions in Mexico and abroad.
ARTICLE BY RICARDO GARIBAY ABOUT THE LIFE OF LUIS STREMPLER.
Foreword
This is about an artist, an excellent artist, an exceptional artist of sculpture, a renowned artist of painting, painting that captures reality, as expressive as Díaz Miron´s poetry. It is about an artist who lives his work with a smiling enjoyment, with an intimate excitement that permeates the bronze and the canvas. Read more . . .
Art critiques
His elegance and perfection, after the shock and excitement, provokes an explosion of full belly laughter.
RICARDO GARIBAY
Strempler delves into Mexican popular culture without getting bogged down in mere folkloric artistry. Rather, he brings to the fore, through his stroke and brushwork, the critical irony of the people’s characters, embedded in the traits of the national idiosyncrasy itself.
LUIS SUÁREZ
Strempler is the most Mexican painter of all Mexicans.
ALBERTO MISRACHI
With their vital dynamism, his paintings showcase great craftsmanship and a heightened chromatic sensitivity, creating extraordinary three-dimensional effects.
JOSEPH RASCOB
His work is a true celebration of color and continuously moving forms, and it will be what endures as a faithful expression of vibrant Mexican customs and a testament to a fulfilling artistic endeavor.
RICARDO GARCÍA
Luis Strempler, an enlightened artist from the sacred Tlahuiltepetl, is the chromogen that brings to life the magical colors of the landscape, flora, and fauna, along with the complex human experience, encompassing both vices and virtues. With his skilled hands, he shapes bronze and rough stone to create figures that seem to freeze in perpetual motion, challenging the limitations of reality.
CARLOS BASURTO
Strempler, a fierce chronicler of the land of the plump and the slender alike.
GERMÁN DEHESA