Fermín Revueltas Sánchez

Fermín Revueltas Sánchez (born July 7, 1901 in Santiago Papasquiaro , Durango , † September 7, 1935 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican painter .

Life

Fermín was one of the sons of Gregorio Revueltas Gutiérrez and Romana Sánchez Arias , a family from northern Mexico. From 1910 to 1913 the Revueltas Sánchez family went to Guadalajara . Because of the raging revolution in Mexico , the father decided to send his sons Fermín and Silvestre to school in the United States . From 1917 to 1920 they first attended St. Edward College in Austin (Texas) and then the school in Chicago . Back in Mexico, Fermín studied Revueltas at the outdoor school of Coyoacán .

He then became director of the "José María Velasco" school in Guadalupe (Mexico City). In 1923 he was involved in the wall paintings of the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria with other well-known artists. In 1928 he joined the Partido Comunista Mexicano . He was active in various artists' associations, was also a supporter of Mexican Estridentism and later also a member of the group of revolutionary painters "30-30".

He died in the middle of the heyday of his work in 1935, leaving behind a multitude of unfinished projects.

In 1991 Javier Audirac made a documentary film about his life and work entitled “Fermín Revueltas o El color” ( Fermín Revueltas or The Color ).

Web links

• Fermín Revueltas o El color in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Fermín Revueltas Sánchez in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fermín Revueltas ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Engl.), Andrés Blaisten Museum .