Isaías Cabezón

Isaías Cabezón Acevedo (* 1891 in Salamanca , † 1963 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean painter.

Life

Cabezón began her artistic career as an autodidact and became known in his hometown as a draftsman and poster painter. He attended the Seminario de La Serena and later the Seminario de San Rafael in Valparaíso. From 1908 he lived with his brother, the architect Alberto Horacio Cabezón , in Santiago and worked in the Banco Alemán Transatlántico . Not until 1917 did he study at the Escuela de Bellas Artes with Juan Francisco González and Ricardo Richon Brunet .

From 1922 he traveled to Europe with the prize money from a poster competition. There he worked in Madrid as a decorator and organized exhibitions in Paris. His own works have been acclaimed by critics such as Florent Fels , Georges Charensol and Maurice Raynal .

After returning to Chile, he joined the avant-garde artist group Grupo Montparnasse , which included José Perotti , Camilo Mori , Henriette Petit and the brothers Julio and Manuel Ortiz de Zárate . In 1928 he became a professor at the Escuela de Bellas Artes . His students included Marcial Lema , Héctor Cáceres and Inés Puyó . As decorador escolar , he created portraits of historical figures in Chile on behalf of the Ministry of Education. He also taught drawing at the Escuela de Canteros , was an assessor at the Instituto de Extensión de Artes Plásticas of the Universidad de Chile , member of the advisory board from 1943 and deputy director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes from 1945, and became a member of the Academía de Bellas Artes in 1958 . He was also one of the founding members of the Sociedad Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago , the Federación de Artistas Plásticos de Chile and the Asociación Chilena de Pintores y Escultores .

Works by Cabezón are in the possession of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (including Niño de la Naranja , 1928; La Ciudadela , 1927), the art gallery of the Universidad de Concepción and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Lima.

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personal data
SURNAME	Cabezón, Isaías
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cabezón Acevedo, Isaías
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Salamanca (Chile)
DATE OF DEATH	1963
Place of death	Santiago de Chile