Xavier Moyssén Echeverría
Xavier Moyssén Echeverría (born October 27, 1924 in Morelia , † July 3, 2001 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican art historian .
Life
Having his childhood and school years in Toluca had spent, Moyssén went to Mexico City to where the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria to visit and at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) history study. At UNAM he acquired specialist art history to M. A. - and a doctorate.
He then worked at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas ( Research Institute for Aesthetics ) at UNAM, where he dealt with the artistic disciplines. At the same time, he taught Mexican and Ibero-American literary history at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria as a professor from March 1959 . In 1965 he got the chair for modern and contemporary art at the faculty for philosophy and humanities of the UNAM and from 1971 he also worked at the local Seminario de Arte Contemporáneo ( seminar for contemporary art ).
In particular, Moyssén dealt with the New Hispanic art and the art of the 20th century and wrote numerous books and specialist articles. Among other things, he was a member of the Preservation Committee of CONACULTA and an honorary member of the Academia de Artes .
Individual evidence
- ^ Academia de Artes: Escultura - Xavier Moyssen
- ^ Louise Noëlle : Xavier Moyssén - Una presencia asidua (PDF; 84 kB)
- ↑ Julieta Ortiz Gaitán: Xavier Moyssén Echeverría (1924-2001) (PDF; 80 kB)
Web links
- Literature by and about Xavier Moyssén Echeverría in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moyssén Echeverría, Xavier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morelia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 2001 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |