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Gustavo Thorlichen

Gustavo (a.k.a. Gustav) Thorlichen (1906–1986) was a German-born landscape, social reportage and architectural photographer and modernist painter who migrated to, and worked, in Argentina from his late twenties.

His photographs promoting his adopted country became iconic through multiple reprinting of his books, particularly ''La República Argentina'' published in 22 editions between 1958 and 1999 in 3 languages.

Gentle and convivial, he befriended and photographed citizens and political and cultural celebrities including Victoria Ocampo, Eva Duarte and Juan Perón, Jorge Luis Borges and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara.

In his parallel career as a painter Thorlichen followed Cubist, surrealist and abstract styles in thousands of artworks, which are now held and exhibited in Malaga, Spain where he lived from age 63 until his death. Provided by Wikipedia