Juan O'Gorman

Juan O'Gorman ( born July 6, 1905 in Coyoacan, † January 7, 1982 in Mexico City) was a Mexican architect and painter.

Life

O'Gorman was the first of four children of Irish painter Cecil Crawford O'Gorman and his wife Encarnación O'Gorman. His younger brother was the historian Edmundo O'Gorman .. He studied architecture in 1920 at the Academia de San Carlos, was involved on the part of the political left and was already at the beginning of the 1930s college professor. The Central Library of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM) and the building of the Banco de México in Mexico City among his architectural works. He also designed the house with a studio for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, written 1931/1932. In addition to the planning of a number of other structures, including only 26 primary schools in Mexico City, he worked as a wood painter, muralist, painter, and painted a number of important images, many of them with socially critical content combined with fantastic elements. In his later years, O'Gorman turned as an architect aware of functionalism from and modeled on Mexico's pre-Columbian past.

His most famous image is the wall painting " Independencia " (1960-1961) at the Castillo de Chapultepec. In 1971 he became a member of the Academia de Artes. In his later years O'Gorman experienced a variety of family and health problems. he had to be built 1953-1956, considered his masterpiece applicable private home in the Pedregal de San Angel district Nobel sell and see that it was demolished by the new Eigentümeren 1969. O'Gorman died in 1982 by suicide.