Roberto Aizenberg

[1] Aizenberg was the grandson of Russian-Jewish immigrants who settled in the Jewish agricultural colonies of Entre Ríos Province, in the town of Villa Federal.

He became a student of Antonio Berni, and from 1950 to 1953 studied with the surrealist Juan Batlle Planas, an unclassifiable artist who emphasized the importance of surrealism and psychoanalysis.

It was followed by six other solo exhibitions before the 1969 Torcuato di Tella Institute major retrospective of his work which included collages, sculptures, 50 paintings, and 200 drawings.

[3] His work shows isolated towers, empty towns, mysterious and uninhabited buildings, and rare polyhedral constructions.

After the military coup occurred that led to the dictatorship known as the National Reorganization Process in 1976 and 1977, the three children and their spouses were kidnapped.

[2] He returned to Argentina three years later and died in Buenos Aires in 1996 while preparing a retrospective of his work at the National Museum of Fine Arts.

Roberto Aizenberg Street in his native Federal, Entre Ríos Province.