Gabriel Fernández Ledesma

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Gabriel Fernández Ledesma (born May 30, 1900 in Aguascalientes , † August 26, 1983 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican painter, sculptor and graphic artist .

biography

Fernández Ledesma began his artistic training at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Together with Roberto Montenegro, he was commissioned to design the Mexican pavilion for the 1922 World Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro . From 1925 he taught at the Escuela Central de Artes Plásticas ( Central School for Fine Arts ), founded a free sculpture school and in 1926 the public art center Centro Popular de Arte in San Pablo . Fernández Ledesma was involved in the Exposición Ibero-Americana in Seville as part of the 1929 World's Fair . In his work for the Secretaría de Educación Pública , among other things, he directed the exhibition on the subject of "Art in Political Life in Mexico" in Paris in 1938 . In 1944 he received a Guggenheim grant .

Under Fernández Ledesma's direction, the magazine for visual arts appeared for the first time in the mid- 1920s with the title “Forma”. He also published several books and was a founding member of the group of revolutionary painters "30-30" and the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriel Fernández Ledesma (Spanish), El Poder de la Palabra.
  2. ↑ Gabriel Fernández Ledesma, 1900-1983 ( Memento of the original dated November 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), Museo Andrés Blaisten.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museoblaisten.com
personal data
SURNAME Fernández Ledesma, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican painter, sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Aguascalientes
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1983
Place of death Mexico city