Amado de la Cueva

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Amado de la Cueva (born May 6, 1891 in Guadalajara , † April 1, 1926 ibid) was a Mexican painter.

Life

De la Cueva first studied with Vizcarra and was a founding member of the Centro Bohemio in Jalisco , a thoroughly politically oriented group, for which he acted as library director. The group existed from 1915, then temporarily disbanded for a year and renamed itself in 1918.

De la Cueva, who then went to Europe on behalf of the government, where he studied in Rome , after his return to Mexico in 1921 co-founded the Sindicato de Obreros, Técnicos, Pintores y Escultores , a group chaired by David Alfaro Siqueiros as general secretary, Diego Rivera as his deputy, Xavier Guerrero , Fermín Revueltas Sánchez , José Clemente Orozco , Ramón Alva Guadarrama , Germán Gutiérrez Cueto and Carlos Mérida were active. From September 1922 he worked with Diego Rivera on the wall paintings of the Secretaría de Educación Pública .

On October 16, 1923 he returned to Guadalajara, where from 1925 he painted with David Alfaro Siqueiros and Carlos Orozco on the murals in the library of the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México . At the government building in Jalisco he restored the destroyed medallions portraits of Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán and Hernán Cortés , which were later destroyed again. He also gave drawing classes in public schools and ran the state library, which Juan José Arreola later headed.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Raquel Tibol: Estrellas rojas de Siqueiros para Octavio Paz. Proceso, March 14, 1992.
  2. ↑ Centro Bohemio. In: Magdalena González Casillas: Apuntes para la Historia de la Pintura en Jalisco. Museo Claudio Jimenez Vizcarra; accessed on December 29, 2018.
  3. ↑ El Centro Bohemio, más allá del arte puro. El Informador, March 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ Manifesto des Sindicato de Obreros, Técnicos, Pintores y Escultores. Original source: El Machete , Issue 72, June 1924.
  5. ↑ a b Amado de la Cueva (Spanish), Biografías y Vidas, 2004.
  6. ↑ Murales de la Biblioteca Iberoamericana requieren intervención. El Informador, January 12, 2011.
  7. ^ Arturo Camacho: El Mural de la Biblioteca Iberoamericana. Milenio, October 18, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Cueva, Amado de la
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Guadalajara
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1926
Place of death Guadalajara