Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar

A Google Doodle released on 27 August 2019 (the 97th anniversary of his birth) was dedicated to him.

He died in Bogotá on 23 August 2004. He was 81 years old.

The Venezuelan government awarded him with the Order of Francisco de Miranda in 1993.

The National University of Colombia, his alma mater, named him Doctor Honoris Causa in 1993.

The Ramírez Villamizar Museum of Modern Art (es), established in 1990 in his hometown of Pamplona, was named in his honor.

In 1978, he received the Order of Boyaca, the highest peacetime decoration awarded by the Colombian government. The following year he was also awarded the Medal of ColCultura and the José Eusebio Caro Medal (the latter being awarded by the departmental government of Norte de Santander, Ramírez Villamizar's place of birth).

In 1940 he moved to Bogotá to study architecture at the National University of Colombia, though he changed his focus to painting in 1944. He was invited by the University of Cauca in 1947 to spend seven months working in Popayán with sculptor Édgar Negret. Negret exposed Ramírez Villamizar to European avant-garde artwork, which he had encountered through colleague and Basque artist Jorge Oteiza. This experience was deeply influential to Ramírez Villamizar's stylistic development in the following years.

He and his family moved to Cúcuta in 1929 in seek of work and economic opportunity after being bankrupted in the Great Depression.

Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar (27 August 1922 – 24 August 2004) was a Colombian painter and sculptor. He is considered a pioneer of abstract, minimalist, and Constructivist art in Colombia, and in Latin America more broadly.

Ramírez Villamizar was born on 27 August 1922 in Pamplona, Colombia to parents Adela Villamizar and Jesús Ramírez Castro. He was the youngest of eleven children. His father was a jeweler, and his first experiences making visual art took place in his father's studio.