Antonio M. RuÃz
Antonio M. Ruíz ( born September 2, 1892 in Texcoco, † 1964 in Mexico City), also called " El Corzo " (Spanish for deer ) and because of its small body size also trivialized by his friends " El Corcito " ( deer ) called, was a Mexican painter and stage designer. He got the nickname because of his physical resemblance to a bullfighter on an image of the Spaniard Ignacio Zuloaga with the same title.
Biography
Ruiz came with his mother named Mercedes and his step- siblings at a young age to Mexico City and visited in 1914, the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, where he first studied architecture and painting. His own statements after it was mainly Saturnino Herrán and Germán Gedovius that shaped him there artistic, later also strongly Flemish artists. From 1921 to 1924 he gave drawing lessons to primary schools in the Distrito Federal de México. From 1925 to 1927, he first went to Hollywood to work as a stage designer, and again in 1936., 1943, he took over after Guillermo Ruiz charge of the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado " La Esmeralda", which he was instrumental reformed and thus helped her to the status of a recognized by the Secretaría de Educación Pública art school. Among his close friends among the well-known artists included Frida Kahlo, Juan O'Gorman and Gabriel Fernández Ledesma and Miguel Covarrubias. The latter gave rise to the six portable murals entitled " Peagent of the Pacific '.