Gabriel Fernández Ledesma
| Gabriel Fernández Ledesma | |
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'Terrible Disaster' (1928). Oil on canvas.
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| Born |
May 30, 1900 Aguascalientes, Mexico |
| Died | August 26, 1983 (aged 83) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Known for | Painting |
| Awards | José Guadalupe Posada medal |
Gabriel Fernández Ledesma (May 30, 1900 - August 26, 1983) was a Mexican painter, printmaker, sculptor, graphic artist, writer and teacher. He began his career working with artist Roberto Montenegro then moved into publishing and education. His work was recognized with two Guggenheim Fellowships, the José Guadalupe Posada medal and membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Fernández Ledesma was born in 1900 into a large family of intellectuals in Aguascalientes.
Even before he went to art school, he and friend Francisco Díaz de León founded a group called the Círculo de Artistas Independentes in Aguascalientes in 1915, a forum through which they organized exhibitions.
In 1917, he received a scholarship from the state government of Aguascalientes to attend the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (National School of Fine Arts) in Mexico City. There he studied under Leandro Izaguierre, Carlos Lazo and Saturnino Herran. To earn money to live on as a student, he worked as a calligrapher’s assistant and then by tracing agricultural property plans at the Archivo General de la Nación.
Fernández Ledesma married Isabel Villaseñor, an icon of Mexico's postrevolutionary period. They had one daughter, Olinca.
Fernández Ledesma died in 1983 in Mexico City.
He was a painter, muralist, engraver, photographer, writer, editor, designer and researcher of Mexican handcrafts and folk art. Fernández Ledesma began his career working on projects related to the government, often collaborating or assisting Roberto Montenegro. In the early 1920s, he was commissioned by then education minister José Vasconcelos to create modern tile designs for the church of the former monastery of San Pedro y San Pablo. He chose to revive Puebla Talavera tiles for this task. In 1922, he went to Rio de Janeiro as an assistant to Montenegro to design the murals that decorated the walls of the Mexican pavilion for the 1922 Centenary Exposition in Rio de Janeiro . When he returned from Brazil, education minister José Vasconcelos, appointed him artistic director of the Ceramics Pavilion at the faculty of Chemical Science.
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