Zeller, Ludwig

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Zeller, Ludwig

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  • Zeller Ocampo, Ludwig

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      1927-2019

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      Ludwig Zeller was a Chilean poet and visual artist associated with the surrealism movement. He was born in 1927 in Río Loa in the northern Chilean region of Calama. From 1952-1968, he was the curator and director of the Ministry of Education Art Gallery in Chile. In 1971, he moved to Toronto with his family where he continued his career as a surreal collagist and poet. While in Canada, Zeller and his wife, artist Susana Wald, established Oasis Publications, Canada’s only surrealist publishing house. In 1993, Zeller and Wald re-located to Oaxaca where they resided until Zeller's death in 2019.

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      http://viaf.org/viaf/49741420

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      Added by J Gilmore, 26 October 2021.

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