Celia Calderon de la Barca

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Celia Calderón de la Barca (born February 10, 1921 in Mexico City , † October 9, 1969 there ) was a Mexican artist.

From 1942 to 1944 she studied painting at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National School of Plastic Arts), which emerged from the Academia de San Carlos . A scholarship from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM) enabled her to study printmaking at the Escuela de Artes del Libro (School of Book Art). In 1947 she founded the Sociedad Mexicana de Grabadores (Mexican Society of Engravers) together with other artists . In 1950 Calderón de la Barca briefly studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in England and in 1952 joined the Taller de Grafica Popular (Workshop of Folk Graphics, TGP), of which she became president in 1963. In 1957 she traveled to the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China , where she exhibited her works in Beijing . In 1965 she resigned from the Taller de Grafica Popular.

literature

  • Václav Bolemír Nebeský : Calderon de la Barca, ČČM 1858
  • Helga Prignitz-Poda
    • TGP: a collective of graphic artists in Mexico from 1937–1977. Berlin, 1981 ISBN 3-922005-12-8
    • Taller de Gráfica Popular: Workshop for graphic folk art: posters and leaflets on the labor movement and trade unions in Mexico 1937–1986. Berlin, 2002 ISBN 3-935656-10-6
personal data
SURNAME Calderon de la Barca, Celia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1969
Place of death Mexico city