Agustín Lazo Adalid
Agustín Lazo Adalid (* 1896 in Mexico City ; † 1971 there ) was a Mexican artist, stage painter , costume designer and dramaturge . He is seen by many art scholars as a pioneer of surrealism in Mexican painting.
biography
Lazo came from prominent Mexican families on his father's and mother's side, completed the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and began his painting training at the Escuela al Aire Libre de Pintura of Santa Anita Zacatlamanco , Iztapalapa, founded by Alfredo Ramos Martínez in 1913, and from 1917 he attended together with Rufino Tamayo , Julio Castellanos and Gabriel Fernández Ledesma the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes . During this time he assisted Saturnino Herrán and went to Europe for the first time in 1922, where he visited museums in France, Italy, Germany and Belgium and got in touch with the local avant-garde movement. In the meantime he stayed in Mexico, had his first solo exhibition there in 1926 and then lived again in Paris from 1928 to 1930 . In the opinion of many art researchers, European painting influenced him the most among Mexican painters in the years from 1930 to 1945. His style was at times compared with that of Celestino Gorostiza . Lazo belonged to the so-called "Grupo sin Grupo" of the Los Contemporáneos . In 1982 there was a posthumous exhibition for him in the Museo Nacional de Arte . Lazo was the lover of Xavier Villaurrutia . He worked as a stage painter and costume designer at the Teatro Ulises and Orientación in Mexico City and at the Teatro Hidalgo . In Mexico City he also taught painting at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” and at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes .
Web links
- Literature by and about Agustín Lazo Adalid in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Agustín Lazo at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olivier Debroise: La Cultura en México ( Memento of the original of October 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), December 5, 1984.
- ^ Agustín Lazo (Spanish), Latin Art Museum.
- ^ Salvador A. Oropesa: The Contemporáneos Group: rewriting Mexico in the thirties and forties , University of Texas Press, 2003. ISBN 0-292-76057-4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lazo Adalid, Agustín |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican painter, stage painter and dramaturge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico City , Mexico |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1971 |
| Place of death | Mexico City , Mexico |