Emilio Amero

Emilio Amero (born May 25, 1901 in Ixtlahuaca , † April 12, 1976 in Norman ) was a Mexican painter, graphic artist and photographer who was mainly active in the United States and taught. He was one of the first Mexican muralists after the end of the revolution .

biography

Amero had Spanish and Indian ( Otomí ) roots. The family moved to Mexico City in 1909 . He and Rufino Tamayo were friends from childhood. He began his artistic training in 1911 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (ENBA) and also took private lessons from a family friend named Antonio Gómez . After completing his art studies in 1917, he worked for a newspaper. In 1918 he enrolled again in ENBA and attended the outdoor painting school in Coyoacán . In 1921 he exhibited as a student at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Amero co-founded the Sindicato de Obreros, Técnicos, Pintores y Escultores (SOTPE). From 1923 to 1924 he worked with Jean Charlot and learned from him the techniques of murals painting while assisting Orozco in his work at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria in Mexico City. In the Secretaría de Educación Pública he assisted Diego Rivera with his mural, helped Carlos Mérida with the design of the associated children's library and painted the mural himself for the main library there. He then worked in Havana and New York City with lithographic techniques and also worked as an illustrator and painter for various magazines. In 1930 he returned to Mexico City and founded a workshop for lithography there at ENBA. From 1934 to 1938 he was back in New York, teaching drawing and lithography at Florence Cane's school at Rockefeller Center , painting two murals at Bellevue Hospital , experimenting with film and photography, and having his first solo exhibition at the Julian Levy Gallery . One of the scripts for him was written by his friend Federico García Lorca . In 1940 he taught at the University of Washington and headed the arts department of the Cornish College of the Arts . Exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Seattle Art Museum followed . During his 22 years as a professor at the University of Oklahoma , he founded one of the leading lithography workshops.

Web links

• Artist website ( Memento from October 29, 2003 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Emilio Amero (Spanish), Pinturas Latinas, November 27, 2007.
2. ↑ Emilio Amero - Chronology ( Memento of the original from May 4, 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. (English), chronological curriculum vitae.