Federico Cantú Garza

Federico Cantú Garza heraclio ( born March 3, 1907 in Cadereyta Jiménez / Nuevo León, † January 29, 1989 in Mexico City) was a Mexican painter, printmaker and sculptor. He was a representative of Muralismo and was a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.

Life and work

Cantú Garza, son of the physician Adolfo Cantú Jáuregui and writer María Luisa Garza, called " Loreley", attended from 1922 to 1923, the Escuela de Pintura al Aire Libre ( Open-air school of painting ) in Coyoacán and traveled from 1924 to the mid -1930s, Europe and the United States. From 1943 he taught at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado " La Esmeralda" and learned from 1945 when the graphic artist Carlos Alvarado Lang. From 1949 he also taught at the University of California.

His murals typically ornate monuments, public buildings and universities; including his 1961 Iturbide ( Nuevo León) finished work " El Flechador del sol" ( Archer of the Sun) with a total area of 650 square meters and the mural at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León ( UANL ).

His works have been shown among others in the Tate Gallery in London and in New York at the Museum of Modern Art and in the Perls Gallery. In 2005, his nude paintings " Mujer Desnuda " at Sotheby's was sold for almost 19 million U.S. dollars.