Julio Zachrisson

Along with Gilberto Maldonado Thibault, he traveled to Mexico for further study in 1952, visiting Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala on the way there; the trip introduced him to the injustice and poverty which defined the region. Arriving in Mexico, he began to attend La Esmeralda and became acquainted with José Luis Cuevas, Alberto Gironella, and Pedro and Rafael Coronel; he also began to make prints at the Taller de Gráfica Popular, to which he had been invited by Arturo García Bustos. He also made the acquaintance of Remedios Varo and Juan Soriano, the latter of whom introduced him to the prints of Francisco de Goya. In 1959 Zachrisson traveled to Europe for study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia; he then visited the Netherlands, Germany, and France before coming to Spain in 1961 to study Goya's work at the Museo del Prado. He took classes at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando to take advantage of its printing presses. He returned to painting in 1976. Zachrisson died in Madrid on 18 December 2021. Another print is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. His career was the subject of the 2025 documentary The Sorcerer by Félix “Trillo” Guardia.

Julio Zachrisson studied at Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda and Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. The recorded working language is Spanish. The field of work recorded is painting, art of sculpture and engraving process. Work by Julio Zachrisson is recorded in the collections of Smithsonian American Art Museum and Museum of Modern Art.

The canonical record carries the following identifying particulars.

The following is established of origins and background. Recorded at birth as Julio Augusto Zachrisson. Born in 1927 at Panama City. Zachrisson died in 2021 at Madrid.