Alberto Beltrán (graphic designer)

Alberto Beltrán (born March 22, 1923 in Mexico City , † April 19, 2002 ibid) was a Mexican artist .

Life

Since 1934 he learned the trade of tailor in his father's workshop. In the evenings he attended courses in commercial art at the Academia de San Carlos . In 1937, together with Ángel Bracho , Leopoldo Méndez , Raúl Anguiano and other artists, he founded the Taller de Gráfica Popular (workshop of folk graphics, TGP). From 1943 he studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National School for Plastic Arts), which emerged from the Academia de San Carlos . From 1944 to 1960 he was a member of the TGP. He earned his living as an illustrator for various publishers, newspapers and magazines and even edited the magazines Ahí va el golpe and El coyote emplumando . Between 1952 and 1958 he received numerous awards. In 1960 Beltrán became director of the Escuela Libre de Arte y Publicidad (Free School of Art and Advertising) and five years later director of the art department of the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa . In 1968 he was one of the founding members of the Academia de Artes . In 1988 he created a mural for the building of the Procuraduría General de la República . For several years he was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper El Día (The Day). He was also general director of the Department for Research and Preservation of Folk Art in the Secretaría de Educación Pública .

literature

• Helga Prignitz: TGP, a graphic artist collective in Mexico from 1937 to 1977. Berlin, 1981 ISBN 3-922005-12-8
• Helga Prignitz-Poda: Taller de Gráfica Popular. Folk graphic art workshop. Posters and leaflets on the labor movement and trade unions in Mexico 1937 - 1986. Berlin, 2002 ISBN 3-935656-10-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Alberto Beltrán in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Academia de Artes: Escultura - Alberto Beltrán