Francisco Zúñiga
Francisco Zúñiga Chavarría (born December 27, 1912 in Guadalupe near San José , † August 9, 1998 in Tlalpan ) was a Costa Rican - Mexican painter and sculptor .
biography
Zúñiga, son of the religious painter and sculptor Manuel Zúñiga Rodríguez , enrolled at the Art School of San José in 1927, where he received drawing lessons for a short time. In the period from 1928 to 1934 he worked as an assistant in the family sculpture business for religious sculptures.
Impressed by the landscape of Mexico, he emigrated there in 1936 at the age of 24. There he studied design with Rodríguez Lozano and sculpture with Oliverio Martínez until 1938 . Immediately thereafter, he became a professor of sculpture at the La Esmeralda Art Academy in Mexico City . He was particularly fond of sculptures of monumental shape. With his work he shaped the change in Mexican sculpture at that time. In 1943 he became a member of the free sculpture workshop "Taller Libre de Escultura" together with Pedro Coronel , Alberto de la Vega and Manuel Felguérez, and from 1946 he worked as a free artist and official representative for the memorial at the weir of the Valsequillo in Puebla .
In 1987 he became a member of the Academia de Artes .
Awards
- 1935: Prize of the Costa Rican art salon Salón de Escultura for his stone sculpture "La Maternidad" (German: The motherhood )
- 1958: 1st prize for sculpture from the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes
Works
Sculpture in front of a bank in Hamburg
Web links
- Literature by and about Francisco Zúñiga in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
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- ↑ Academia de Artes: Escultura - Francisco Zúñiga
- ↑ Biografías y Vidas: Francisco Zúñiga
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zúñiga, Francisco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Costa Rican-Mexican painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guadalupe |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1998 |
| Place of death | Tlalpan |