León Saavedra Geuer
Bolivia

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León Saavedra Geuer de nacionalidad Boliviana, nació en la ciudad de Culemborg en Holanda en 1958. Siendo quinta generación de vitralistas, su primera aproximación al arte fue a través de su madre: María Sunniva Geuer, pintora y vitralista, quien le enseñó las técnicas del vitral y del gobelino.

He studied Design in La Paz and architecture, returning to the Netherlands in 1980 was invited for the restoration of the stained glass windows of the Cathedral of Utrecht and five other churches. Since 1982 he has had numerous individual and group exhibitions of sculpture and stained glass. He participated in several competitions and symposiums and its most important awards are
2002: Gold medal at the Bienal del Chaco in Resistencia, Argentina.
1999: First prize Pedro Domingo Murillo in La Paz, Bolivia; SIART First Prize, National Art Museum in La Paz, Bolivia; First Prize at the Museum of Contemporary Art in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

He organized in 2003 the First Meeting of Latin American Peace and Freedom Sculpture in Coroico, Bolivia, inviting Latin American sculptors to work in his studio and then finish the works in the town square, in the open air.

He made major restorations of stained glass La Paz, Bolivia: Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, Government Palace and the Foreign Ministry. He designed and made the Military Monumental Stained Glass Cathedral, Our Lady of Lujan. La Paz, Bolivia.

The windows of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sucre, Bolivia; The Cathedral of Aiquile. Cochabamba, Bolivia; The windows of the Church of San Francisco. Tarija, Bolivia; The Chapel of La Salle College. Tarija, Bolivia and many other churches.

His work is displayed in the National Museum of Art in La Paz, Bolivia; Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Cruz, Bolivia; Museum of Latin American Art MOOLA, USA and in private collections in Bolivia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, Chile, Paraguay and the United States.

Monumental sculptures in public spaces in Sucre, Bolivia; Iquique, Chile; Chaco, Argentina; Asuncion, Paraguay, among others.