Abraham Ángel

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Self-portrait (1923), 810 × 725 mm (31.9 × 28.5 in), Museo Nacional de Arte .
Portrait of Hugo Tilghman [The Tennis Players] (1924), 1,360 × 1,200 mm (53.5 × 47.2 in), Museo Nacional de Arte .

Abraham Ángel Card Valdés (born March 7, 1905 in El Oro , State of México , † October 27, 1924 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican painter.

Life

Card was the son of a Scot . After the father left the family, the mother went to Puebla with the children . Basically he only called himself by his first name, as his father had forbidden him to use the name Card . He spent his childhood in Puebla before moving to Mexico City with an older brother at the age of eleven. Here he completed his artistic training at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes , met Manuel Rodríguez Lozano in 1921 and gave students drawing lessons according to Adolfo Best Maugard's method. He himself mainly painted portraits, village scenes and landscapes with "unnatural" colors; his pictures were predominantly of a naive artistic style. He felt humiliated and depressed when he died of a morphine overdose .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Abraham Angel Card (English), Art Encyclopedia.
personal data
SURNAME Ángel, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Card Valdés, Abraham Ángel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH El Oro , State of Mexico
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1924
Place of death Mexico city