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Antonio Bueno
The Restless Spirit of Antonio Bueno Born into the intellectual vibrancy of Berlin in 1918, Antonio Bueno was a child of shifting borders and journalistic currents. As the son of a journalist for the Madrid-based newspaper ABC, his early life was marked by an inherent connection to the flow of information and the diverse perspectives of a continent in flux. His formative education, spanning the cultural landscapes of Spain and Switzerl
and, provided him with a robust classical foundation that would later serve as the springboard for his radical departures into modernism. By 1937, Bueno had found himself in Paris, immersing himself in the avant-garde atmosphere of the Salon des Jeunes, an experience that planted the seeds of Surrealist fascination within his creative soul. The trajectory of his life took a definitive turn in 1940 when, alongside his brother Xavier, h…