Antonio M. Ruiz

Antonio M. Ruiz (* 2 September 1892 in Texcoco , † 1964 in Mexico City ) (by his friends as "El Corzo" . Span for Roebuck ) and also trivialized because of its small size, "El Corcito" ( Rehböcklein ) called, was a Mexican painter and set designer. He got the nickname because of his physical resemblance to a torero in a picture of the Spaniard Ignacio Zuloaga with the same title.

biography

Ruiz came to Mexico City at a young age with his mother named Mercedes and his step-siblings and from 1914 attended the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, where he first studied architecture and then painting. According to his own statements, it was mainly Saturnino Herrán and Germán Gedovius who shaped him artistically there, and later the Flemish artists as well. From 1921 to 1924 he gave drawing lessons in elementary schools in the Federal District of México . From 1925 to 1927 he went to Hollywood for the first time to work as a set designer, and again in 1936. In 1943, after Guillermo Ruiz , he took over the management of the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" , which he played a major role reformed and thus helped her to the status of an art school recognized by the Secretaría de Educación Pública . Frida Kahlo , Juan O'Gorman , Gabriel Fernández Ledesma and Miguel Covarrubias were among his close friends among the well-known artists . The latter gave the impetus for the six transportable murals with the title "Peagent of the Pacific".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://bibart.cenart.gob.mx/boletin/boletin01.pdf (link not available)
2. ↑ "El Corcito" Antonio Ruiz ( Memento of 13 April 2009 at the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), sepiensa.org.mx.
3. ↑ MUSEO DE LA SHCP ( Memento of February 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), self-description on the occasion of the Exibición de la Colección Acervo Patrimonial .