Gunther Gerszo

Gunther Gerszo

Known for: Art
Biography: 1915-06-17
Deathday: 2000-04-21 (84 years old)

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Biography

Gunther Gerzso (June 17, 1915 – April 21, 2000) was a Mexican painter, designer and director and screenwriter for film and theatre. Gerzso was born in Mexico City, in the times of the Revolution. His parents were Oscar Gerzso (Hungarian: Gerzsó Oszkár), a Hungarian immigrant, and Dore Wendland, German by birth. After his father's death a few months after Gunther was born, his mother married a German jeweler. The economic crisis during the revolution caused the family to flee to Europe in 1922. The family returned to Mexico two years later and her mother divorced. Not being able to provide for the children, she sent Gunther to Lugano, Switzerland to live with his uncle Dr. Hans Wendland, who was an influential name in the art world. Gunther, then a teenager, met Paul Klee and lived among his uncle's collection of paintings which included works by Pierre Bonnard, Rembrandt, Paul Cézanne, Eugène Delacroix and Titian. During his time in Lugano, he also met Nando Tamberlani, noted set designer who would introduce him to the world of theater.

In 1931, due to the impact of the Great Depression in Europe, Dr. Wendland sent the boy back to his mother in Mexico City. Back home he started doing sketches for set designs and writing plays influenced by Mr. Tamberlani. Two years later he started working in a local theater production company run by Fernando Wagner. In 1935 he was offered a scholarship to study at the Cleveland Play House where he made more than 50 set designs over the course of four years. During the 1940s and '50s he made various set designs for Mexican, French and American films. He won a total of five Premios Ariel (The Mexican Equivalent of the Oscars) for Best Production Design as well as two more honorary Ariel Awards in 1994 and 2000. During this time he collaborated with directors like Emilio "El Indio" Fernández in Un Día de Vida (1950), Luis Buñuel in Susana (1951), Una Mujer sin Amor (1952) and El rio y la muerte (1955), Yves Allégret in Les Orgueilleux (1953), and John Huston in Under the Volcano (1984).

In the late 1930s Gerzso also started painting as a hobby. The steady parade of beautiful actresses and interesting people he met in show business provided him with a great inspiration for his canvases which showed a mix of European and Mexican influences. His friend, Bernard Pfriem, convinced him to enter the annual Art Exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art where two of his works were selected. It was then that Gunther Gerzso started considering himself a painter more than a set designer. In 1941 Gerzso and his wife moved permanently to Mexico City and in 1944 he joined a group of surrealist painters that had taken refuge from the Second World War in Mexico. These artists were Benjamin Péret, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Alice Rahon and Wolfgang Paalen. His works from this period show a clear surrealist influence, which he later abandoned when he started working his famous abstracts.

According to Octavio Paz, Gunther Gerzso was one of the greatest Latin American painters, since it was he, along with Carlos Mérida and Rufino Tamayo, who opposed the ideologist aesthetic movement into which muralism had degenerated.

Gunther Gerzso was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973 and later in 1978 he was the recipient of the Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes. Gunther Gerzso died on April 21, 2000.

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Filmography

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Movies 80

Writer 10

Production Design
Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano (1984)

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Production Design
El Extra

El Extra (1962)

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Production Design
Estoy casado, ja, ja

Estoy casado, ja, ja (1962)

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Production Design
Se alquila marido

Se alquila marido (1961)

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Production Design / Art Direction
Mark of the Dead Man

Mark of the Dead Man (1961)

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Production Design
El analfabeto

El analfabeto (1961)

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ProductionDesigner
Caperucita y sus tres amigos

Caperucita y sus tres amigos (1961)

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ProductionDesigner
Ellas también son rebeldes

Ellas también son rebeldes (1961)

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Production Design
The Living Coffin

The Living Coffin (1959)

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Production Design
Sonatas

Sonatas (1959)

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Art Direction
Sábado negro

Sábado negro (1959)

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Production Design
Black Pit of Dr. M

Black Pit of Dr. M (1959)

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ProductionDesigner
México nunca duerme

México nunca duerme (1959)

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Writer
El superflaco

El superflaco (1959)

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Writer
Pistolas de oro

Pistolas de oro (1959)

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Production Design
Sube y baja

Sube y baja (1959)

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ProductionDesigner
Mysteries of Black Magic

Mysteries of Black Magic (1958)

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ProductionDesigner
Tú y la mentira

Tú y la mentira (1958)

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ProductionDesigner
Cuatro copas

Cuatro copas (1958)

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ProductionDesigner
Tres desgraciados con suerte

Tres desgraciados con suerte (1958)

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ProductionDesigner
Ay... Calypso no te rajes!

Ay... Calypso no te rajes! (1958)

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ProductionDesigner
Los Mujeriegos

Los Mujeriegos (1958)

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Art Direction
Raffles

Raffles (1958)

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Production Design
La mafia del crimen

La mafia del crimen (1958)

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Production Design
Pretty sky!

Pretty sky! (1957)

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Production Design
El bolero de Raquel

El bolero de Raquel (1957)

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Art Direction
The Vampire

The Vampire (1957)

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ProductionDesigner
The Body Snatcher

The Body Snatcher (1957)

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ProductionDesigner
Esposa te doy

Esposa te doy (1957)

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Writer
Hay ángeles con espuelas

Hay ángeles con espuelas (1957)

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ProductionDesigner
Hora y media de balazos

Hora y media de balazos (1957)

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ProductionDesigner
El ratón

El ratón (1957)

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ProductionDesigner
Policías y ladrones

Policías y ladrones (1956)

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Writer
The Hidden One

The Hidden One (1956)

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Writer
¡Que seas feliz!

¡Que seas feliz! (1956)

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ProductionDesigner
La sombra de Cruz Diablo

La sombra de Cruz Diablo (1955)

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Production Design
Drop the Curtain

Drop the Curtain (1955)

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Art Direction
A Life in the Balance

A Life in the Balance (1955)

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ProductionDesigner
A los cuatro vientos

A los cuatro vientos (1955)

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Production Design
Tailored gentleman

Tailored gentleman (1954)

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Production Design
The River and Death

The River and Death (1954)

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ProductionDesigner
La gitana blanca

La gitana blanca (1954)

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ProductionDesigner
The Witch

The Witch (1954)

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ProductionDesigner
Estoy taan enamorada

Estoy taan enamorada (1954)

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ProductionDesigner
To the sound of the Charleston

To the sound of the Charleston (1954)

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Art Direction
The Proud and the Beautiful

The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)

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Production Design
El señor fotógrafo

El señor fotógrafo (1953)

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10
ProductionDesigner
The Magnificent Beast

The Magnificent Beast (1953)

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Art Direction
The Brute

The Brute (1953)

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2
Set Designer
The Revived Monster

The Revived Monster (1953)

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Production Design
El bombero atómico

El bombero atómico (1952)

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Production Design
A Woman Without Love

A Woman Without Love (1952)

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ProductionDesigner
The Absentee

The Absentee (1952)

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Production Design
Si yo fuera diputado

Si yo fuera diputado (1952)

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Writer
Doña Perfecta

Doña Perfecta (1951)

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Production Design
Ella y Yo

Ella y Yo (1951)

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Production Design
Women's prison

Women's prison (1951)

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Writer
They Say I'm a Communist

They Say I'm a Communist (1951)

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Art Designer
Hell Road

Hell Road (1951)

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ProductionDesigner
Weddings of fire

Weddings of fire (1951)

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Production Design
Susana

Susana (1951)

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2
Production Design
El Siete Machos

El Siete Machos (1951)

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Writer
Rural captain

Rural captain (1951)

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Production Design
Entre tu amor y el cielo

Entre tu amor y el cielo (1950)

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Production Design
El Portero

El Portero (1950)

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9
Writer
Cuatro contra el mundo

Cuatro contra el mundo (1950)

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ProductionDesigner
Tú, solo tú

Tú, solo tú (1950)

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Production Design
The Possession

The Possession (1950)

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Writer
Confidencias de un ruletero

Confidencias de un ruletero (1949)

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ProductionDesigner
Hay lugar para... dos

Hay lugar para... dos (1949)

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Art Direction
El Mago

El Mago (1949)

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Art Direction
A Family Like Many Others

A Family Like Many Others (1949)

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Production Design
El Supersabio

El Supersabio (1948)

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Art Direction
Mystery in Mexico

Mystery in Mexico (1948)

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ProductionDesigner
Get Off at the Next Corner!

Get Off at the Next Corner! (1948)

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Production Design
The Other One

The Other One (1946)

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Production Design
El ahijado de la muerte

El ahijado de la muerte (1946)

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Production Design
The Last Adventure

The Last Adventure (1946)

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Production Design
Champion Without Crown

Champion Without Crown (1946)

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Production Design
Santa

Santa (1943)

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Ratings

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Information

Known For
Art

Gender
Male

Birthday
1915-06-17

Deathday
2000-04-21 (84 years old)

Birth Place
Mexico City, Mexico

Citizenships
Mexico

Also Known As
Gunther Guerzso

Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship, National Prize for Arts and Sciences


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