Fanny Rabel

Fanny Rabel (born August 27, 1922 in Poland , † November 25, 2008 in Mexico City ; actually Fanny Rabinovich ) was an artist of Polish origin working in Mexico .

biography

Fanny Rabinovich, daughter of a Jewish theater actor family and sister of Malkah Rabell , came to Paris in 1929 and began her artistic training here. In 1938 she came to Mexico, where she took courses in graphics and sculpture at the Escuela Nocturna para Trabajadores . From 1942 she studied at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" . She learned from José Chávez Morado , Feliciano Peña and, along with Arturo García Bustos , Guillermo Monroy and Arturo Estrada, was one of Frida Kahlo's students , who became known as “Los Fridos”. She also assisted David Alfaro Siqueiros and later Diego Rivera on his murales in the Palacio Nacional . In 1945 she gave her first solo exhibition in the Liga Popular Israelita . In 1948 she was among the founding members of the Sociedad para el Impulso de las Artes Plásticas , in 1952 among the founders of the Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas (FNAP) and from 1949 to 1961 a member of the Taller de Grafica Popular . Her work includes murales at the Israelite Sports Center in the Mexican capital and at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City.

personal data
SURNAME	Rabel, Fanny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rabinovich, Fanny (real name); La Fanny de los Fridos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish-Mexican painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 27, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Poland
DATE OF DEATH	November 25, 2008
Place of death	Mexico city