iNTRODUCTION.
Welcome to our website for to know about Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari, more known as Xul Solar, was a painter, sculptor, writer and Argentine inventor of imaginary languages, that was in the artistic movement in the twenties at Buenos Aires. He was a friend of artists and writers as Jorge Luis Borges, Macedonio Fernandez, Oliverio Girondo and Leopoldo Marechal, between others.
Xul Solar
San Francisco - 1917
biography.
He was born in San Fernando, Buenos Aires Province. Is son of Elmo Schulz Riga and his mother, originally from Italy, was called Agustina Solari
He was educated in Buenos Aires, first as a musician and then as an architect.
When he had twenty-five years he traveled to Hong Kong and toured some European countries like England, France and Italy. In Milan he met his compatriot, the modernist painter Emilio Pettoruti, who saw their drawings from 1914 (despite the onset of World War I).
His first big exhibition of art was in 1920 in Milan, together with sculptor Arturo Martini.
In 1963 he died in his house at Tigre, Buenos Aires.
Artistic Name.
​In 1916, Schulz Solari first signed his work as "Xul Solar" to simplify your name and because the surname of their father "Schulz" is pronounced Xul.
​Desarrollo del Yi Ching - 1953
​Zodíaco - 1953
​Gestación de Jesus - 1954
​Xul Solar Museum.
​In 1939, Xul started a project to establish a “universal club,” which he called “Pan Klub” (in Neocriollo) and he inaugurated the club at his home. Nearly fifty years later, his widow, Micaela (Lita) Cadenas created the Fundación Pan Klub (the museum) respecting the original plans of the creator.
​Work and interests.
​Solar's paintings are mainly sculptures, often using striking contrasts and bright colours. Solar had a strong interest in astrology and a strong interest in Buddhism and believed strongly in reincarnation.
​Imaginary languages.
​He invented two imaginary languages. One of his invented languages was called "Neocriollo", a poetic fusion of Portuguese and Spanish, and he also invented a "Panlengua", which aspired to be a world language of the mathematics, music, astrology and the visual arts.
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