CORNELIS ZITMAN (1926–2016)

Dutch-born Venezuelan artist Cornelis Zitman has died. After beginning his career as a technical draftsman, he began making sculptures and won Veneuela’s National Sculpture Prize in 1951. His works are in the National Art Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas in Venezuela, as well as in the Musée Maillol in Paris. His art has appeared in the São Paulo Biennial, and in solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas and the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá.