Mauricio Lasansky interview

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Mauricio Lasansky interview

1976 June 28 -July 6

Interview transcript of Argentina bon printmaker, Mauricio Lasansky, conducted June 28 and July 6, 1976 by Jan Muhlert.

91 p. transcript.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8258675

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Muhlert, Jan Keene, 1942-

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Mauricio Lasansky was born October 12, 1914 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to parents of Lithuanian ancestry. His interest in printing was stirred at a young age, because his father made engravings for printing the currency of Argentina. Young Lasansky began his formal printmaking education at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes, and within three years was the director of the Free Fine Arts School in Argentina. In 1943 he studied at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York under a Guggenheim Fel...