Saturnino Herrán Guinchard

Saturnino Herrán Guinchard (born July 9, 1887 in Aguascalientes , † October 8, 1918 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican painter.

biography

Nuestros dioses antiguos , 1916

Saturnino Herrán was the son of José Herrán , former treasurer in the state of Aguascalientes and owner of the only library in the city of Aguascalientes, and his wife Josefa Guinchard , who came from French-speaking Switzerland . His father died in 1903. Two years later the impoverished family moved to Mexico City, where Herrán enrolled at the Academia de San Carlos, which was run by Antonio Rivas Mercado at the time, and studied painting under Antonio Fabrés and Germán Gedovius . He also made a living for the family. He was able to finish his studies with a scholarship. In 1909 he taught briefly as a professor of drawing at the ENBA and received a scholarship for Europe, which he had to refuse because he could not leave his mother alone. In 1912 his pictures were in demand and he met Rosario Arellano , whom he married two years later, the year his only son was born. In October 1918, Saturnino Herrán was operated on for a stomach ailment and died a few days later.

Some of his paintings are now in the Palacio de Bellas Artes . His son José Francisco later became a chemist and was a university professor at UNAM . He died in 1970.

Works (selection)

• 1908: "Labor o El Trabajo"
• 1909: "Molino de Vidrio y Vendedoras de Ollas"
• 1910/1911: Wall decoration at the Escuela Nacional de Artes y Oficios para Hombres (HENAO)
• 1912: "Vendedor de Plátanos"
• 1913: "La Ofrenda y El jarabe"

Web links

• Literature by and about Saturnino Herrán in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Saturnino Herrán (Spanish), laberintos.com.mx.
2. ↑ Saturnino Herrán, una trayectoria reve pero brillante en la pintura ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2009 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), Mundo Hispano de KSL, October 7, 2007.