15 Facts About Rhod Rothfuss

Carlos Maria "Rhod" Rothfuss was a Uruguayan-Argentine artist who specialized in painting and sculpture.

Rhod Rothfuss was considered a key theoretician for the development of the concrete art movement in Argentina in the 1940s and was a founding member of the international Latin American abstract art movement, Grupo Madi.

In 1938, Rothfuss studied art at Circulo de Bellas Artes in Montevideo.

Rhod Rothfuss studied with the artists Guillermo Laborde and Jose Cuneo.

In 1939 while at an Emilio Pettoruti art show, Rhod Rothfuss met and became friends with the artist, Carmelo Arden Quin.

In 1942, Rhod Rothfuss moved from Uruguay to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he lived until 1945.

Rhod Rothfuss soon became friends with fellow artists, Gyula Kosice, Tomas Maldonado, Carmelo Arden Quin.

In 1944, Rhod Rothfuss was part of the group of artists who created and edited the magazine called Arturo, which existed for only one issue, and included fellow artists, Carmelo Arden Quin, Edgar Bailey, Gyula Kosice, Raul Lozza, Tomas Maldonado, and Lidy Prati.

Rhod Rothfuss was stating what was then a revolutionary idea, that he was advocation for the removal of the frame of the painting, saying that it got in the way of the art.

In 1945, Rhod Rothfuss participated in two seminal concrete art exhibitions called Arte Concreto-Invencion in Buenos Aires.

In 1945, Rhod Rothfuss participated in Asociacion Arte Concreto-Invencion's first two concrete art exhibitions organized at the homes of Swiss born psychoanalyst, Enrique Pichon-Riviere, and German-Argentinian photographer, Grete Stern.

Rhod Rothfuss participated in the group's third exhibition organized in October 1946 at the Argentinian Society of Plastic Arts.

From 1945 to 1950, Rhod Rothfuss created sculptures that had moving parts.

In 1946, Rhod Rothfuss joined the Asociacion Arte Concreto-Invencion, a concrete art group founded by Tomas Maldonado in 1944.

In 1946, Gyula Kosice, Carmelo Arden Quin, and Rhod Rothfuss founded the Grupo Madi.