Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This article, by an anonymous author, introduces the entomologist and artist Leopoldo Richter—who settled in Colombia in 1935—and describes the scientific work and the painting he did in the Colombian jungles. The article refers to the connection [...]

This catalogue was published by the Banco de la República of Colombia in February 1963 in conjunction with the exhibition of twenty-three paintings from the bank’s Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango art collection. The exhibition was held in the [...]

In this article, Marta Traba maintains that the German artists Guillermo Wiedemann and Leopoldo Richter achieved an understanding of, and transmitted the essence and spirit of “the black race and the Indian race, and the ambience characteristic of [...]