Federico Cantu Garza
Federico Heráclio Cantú Garza (born March 3, 1907 in Cadereyta Jiménez / Nuevo León , † January 29, 1989 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican painter, graphic artist and sculptor . He was a representative of muralism and was a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana .
life and work
Cantú Garza, son of the physician Adolfo Cantú Jáuregui and the writer María Luisa Garza , known as "Loreley", attended the Escuela de Pintura al Aire Libre (open-air painting school) in Coyoacán from 1922 to 1923 and traveled through Europe and from 1924 to the mid-1930s the United States. From 1943 he taught at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” and from 1945 learned from the graphic artist Carlos Alvarado Lang . From 1949 he also taught at the University of California .
His murals typically decorate monuments, public buildings, and universities; including his work “El flechador del sol” ( Archer of the Sun ), completed in 1961 in Iturbide (Nuevo León) , with a total area of 650 square meters, and the mural at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL).
His works have been shown in the Tate Gallery in London, in New York in the Museum of Modern Art and in the Perls Gallery . In 2005, his nude painting "Mujer Desnuda" was sold at Sotheby’s for just under 19 million US dollars.
Web links
- Literature by and about Federico Cantú Garza in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Federico Cantú Garza in the Deutsche Fotothek
Individual evidence
- ↑ Place of birth is sometimes also given as Monterrey .
- ↑ Ana Mónica Rodriguez: Homenaje por centenario del pintor Federico Cantú (Spanish, corrected and supplemented using other sources).
- ^ Fermin Tellez: Federico Cantú Garza y "El flechador del sol" en Iturbide NL " (Spanish).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cantu Garza, Federico |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cantú Garza, Federico Heráclio (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cadereyta Jiménez , Nuevo León |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1989 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |