Herman Braun-Vega

Herman Braun-Vega (7 July 1933 – 2 April 2019) was a Peruvian painter and artist. His art were often political or cultural.^[1]

In 1978 he began to paint portraits, especially of his painters friends who invited to participate in the gestation of his canvases: Vladimir Veličković (in 1978), Gilles Aillaud (in 1979), Erró (in 1978-1982), Wifredo Lam (in 1979), Jean Dewasne (in 1982), William S. Hayter (in 1983) and Gérard Fromanger (in 1984). He also painted numerous writers: Jorge Semprún, Alain Jouffroy, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Alfredo Bryce Echenique and Jean-Michel Ribes.

Braun-Vega died in his sleep in Paris on 2 April 2019, aged 85.^[2]

Herman Braun-Vega Media

In 1950, in front of the bus of the National School of Fine Arts in Lima, among the students of his class, Herman Braun-Vega poses with his painting La bajada de Chorrillos.
Herman Braun-Vega at the 1952 Salon d'Automne in Paris
Velázquez's Las Meninas is the subject of Herman Braun's series Velazquez laid bare accompanied by the Meninas.
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Manet is the set in which Picasso bursts into the series Picasso dans un déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine by Cézanne has been the subject of several variations in the triptic Une affaire de pommes n°2 (Cézanne)
Alain Jouffroy and Herman Braun-Vega in front of the portrait of the former created by the latter at the 39th Venice Biennale, 1980.
Vermeer’s Woman with a Water Jug becomes the representative of the North in the painting Buenos dias Vermeer, an allegory of North-South relations.