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Leonardo Nierman (born November 1, 1932), full name Leonardo Nierman Mendelejis, is a Mexican artist mostly known for his painting and sculpture. He at first wanted to be a violinist, but gave it up after twenty years when he compared a recording of his playing with that of Yehudi Menuhin. However, his musical training has been a major influence on his painting and sculpture, reproducing movement and harmony as Nierman sees similarities between the two disciplines. Nierman has had exhibitions in Mexico and abroad and over sixty recognitions of his work, half of which are from outside of Mexico. His work is abstract but still with discernible images from nature such as birds, water, lightning and more. His paintings are in pure colors while his sculptures are generally of metal, often silver-toned. ==Life== Leonardo Nierman Mendelejis was born in Mexico City on November 1, 1932. He is the only child of Clara Mendelejis, a bakery worker and Chanel Nierman, a bus inspector who later started a small jacket factory. Nierman’s parents arrived to Mexico in the mid 1920s, his father from Lithuania and his mother from the Ukraine both poor. The two met in Mexico.〔 When he was a child, he wanted to be a musician and dedicated himself to the violin for two decades.〔 At that time, art did not attract him although he remembers seeing the murals of Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco but with little reaction except anger upon seeing some vandalism on an Orozco mural.〔 To pursue music, he began with private violin lesson and attended the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico for a while. He even gave some recitals in the Palacio de Bellas Artes. He gave up the violin when he heard a recording of himself playing Symphonie espagnole by Édouard Lalo, and then comparing his interpretation with that of Yehudi Menuhin.〔 At first he thought he had wasted his time with the violin but has since decided that it gave him his philosophy on life and prepared him for his painting and sculpture. After he left music, he began to be attracted to color, but he remains attached to music especially artists such as Bach, Debussy, Mahler and Stravinsky. However, he was still hesitant about painting. He remembers that one day he was walking in the historic center of Mexico City and found an artist’s supply shop and thought about taking up painting as a hobby, but then thought he could not because of lack of preparation.〔 Despite his affinity for the arts, Nierman’s formal education was not in this field. He graduated from preparatory in 1951, with a concentration in physics and mathematics.〔 In 1953, he studied the psychology of color and form in static and moving bodies. He also began spending large amounts of time in museums.〔〔 He completed a bachelor’s in business administration at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México but never pursued this career because he had begun to paint, including a mural at his school. He began painting on his own in his bedroom in his parents’ home. He never thought he would become professional but little by little the activity began to consume most of his time, becoming a self-taught artist.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leonardo Nierman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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