Gerd Leufert

Gerhard "Gerd" Leufert (1914 – 1998) was a German Empire-born Venezuelan painter, photographer, and graphic designer. He is credited with bringing German design principles to Venezuela in the 1950s.

He studied graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He additionally studied under Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke, Walter Teutsch, and Friedrich Heubner. While in Munich he was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund, a craft association. From 1953 to 1956, Leufert and Gego moved to the small mountain town of Tarma in Vargas State. In 1959 he traveled to the United States to pursue studies at the University of Iowa, and graphic design at the Pratt Institute in New York City. In 1990, he was awarded the National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela, followed by an exhibition of his photographs at Sala RG, Caracas. the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in Houston, Texas; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Exhibitions

1972, Conkright Gallery, New York City, New York, United States 1992, , Maracay, Venezuela 1992, Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas, Venezuela 1994–1995, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela