Guillermo Meza Álvarez

Guillermo Meza Álvarez (born September 11, 1917 in Mexico City , † October 2, 1997 ibid) was a Mexican painter and stage painter .

biography

Guillermo Meza came from a modest background. His father Melitón Meza García was a Mexican of indigenous descent, his mother's name was Soledad Álvarez Molina. He attended school from 1926 and was interested in musical subjects from a young age. He later studied at the workers' evening school Escuela Nocturna de Arte para Trabajadores No 1 and then at the Escuela España-México , while on the side he worked as a salesman, mechanic, plumber, photographer, retoucher and caretaker in order to earn a living. His art teachers were the painters Francisco Díaz de León and Santos Balmori Picazo . At the Escuela España-México he also met his future wife Josefa Sánchez, called "Pepita", whom he married in 1947 and with whom he had four children, Carolina, Federico, Magdalena and Alejandro.

Diego Rivera discovered him in 1939 and, through his relationships with Inés Amor, made it possible for him to have his first solo exhibition in the Galería de Arte Mexicano in 1940 . Several exhibitions followed in Mexico, the United States and Europe. In 1947 he worked at the Mexican dance academy Academia Mexicana de Danza and a year later with the musicians of the Linterna mágica (Laterna magica). He was president of the First National Congress of Visual Artists ( Primer Congreso Nacional de Artistas Visuales ) of the Ministry of Culture ( Secretaría de Cultura ) in the Distrito Federal de México and won the national painting competitions of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1953 and 1954 . On May 6, 1968, his wife "Pepita" died in Contreras , where the family lived at the time. In 1977 he also worked as a stage painter and costume designer for a Norwegian ballet company . His pictures are now among the collections of well-known American museums. He died of a heart attack.

Web links

• Entry at ArtFacts.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Enrique Salazar Híjar y Haro Guillermo Meza  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), in México en el Tiempo No. 8, August / September 1995.  
2. ↑ Guillermo Meza, 1917-1997 ( 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.  
3. ↑ Guillermo Meza (English), The adaniGallery.
4. ^ Murió el pintor Guillermo Meza (Spanish), La Jornada, October 3, 1997.