Male Torso#3 Painting

Born in 1980 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Victoria Loeb had a bilingual German and Spanish education. In 1992 she met Argentine artist Alicia Maffei and began studying with her. She continued working with Maffei throughout the ’90s, during which she was accepted at the Fine Arts Institute Prilidiano Pueyrredon in Buenos Aires, where she studied from 1998 through 2002. She also studied painting under Argentine artist Miguel Angel Bengochea and spent time in Germany furthering her education. She later attended the studio of contemporary artist Eduardo Medici, in Buenos Aires. She met her husband on a trip to Chicago in 2002, where they now live with their daughter. Since her move to the United States, she’s been working intensely on her paintings at her studio in Chicago.