Fernando Leal (painter, 1896)
Fernando Leal (born February 26, 1896 in Mexico City , † October 7, 1964 in Mexico City) was a Mexican painter and sculptor . He is the co-founder of the Mexican wall painting movement of the 1920s .
biography
He completed his studies at the outdoor painting school of Coyoacan under Alfredo Ramos Martínez together with Gabriel Fernández Ledesma , Rafael Vera de Córdoba , Ramón Alva de la Canal and Fermín Revueltas Sánchez . He then taught at the Academia de San Carlos and in 1927 got the position of director of the Centro Popular de Pintura in Nonoalco . Leal was a founding member of the group of revolutionary painters "30-30", of which he was the theorist and the writer of manifestos. With his encaustic "La fiesta del Señor de Chalma" (1922–1923) he determined the theme and style of the muralist movement. This plant is located in the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria , where Diego Rivera , Jean Charlot , José Clemente Orozco , Ramón Alva de la Canal and David Alfaro Siqueiros also worked.
On November 16, 1958, his son Fernando Leal Audirac was born, who is also one of the well-known Mexican artists. A year later, Leal started an artist rights campaign. His book on the Academia de San Carlos remained unfinished. In 1983 his nephew Javier Audirac filmed the life and work of Fernando Leal.
Works (selection)
- 1922–1923: “La fiesta del señor de Chalma” at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria
- 1927: Fresco "La escala de la vida", Secretaría de Salubridad, Mexico City, destroyed by Diego Rivera
- 1930: Frescoes of the Bolívar amphitheater of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- 1935: "Neptuno encadenado" fresco, Universidad de Panamá, destroyed by order of the President of the Republic
- 1942: "Fantasmagorías", Mexico City
- 1942: Frescoes "La epopeya del transporte" and "La edad de la maquina", San Luis Potosí
- 1945–1947: "Milagro guadalupano" frescoes, Santuario de la Virgen de Guadalupe, Mexico City
- 1958: Mosaic "La historia del teatro en México", San Luis Potosí
Web links
- Literature by and about Fernando Leal (painter, 1896) in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Fernando Leal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- [1] , Mexico's Revolutionary Avant-Gardes
From Estridentismo to ¡30–30! by Tatiana Flores, Yale University Press
- Fernando Leal Audirac , son's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fernando Leal, 1896-1964 (English), Andrés Blaisten Museum . ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leal, Fernando |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 1964 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |