Manuel Tolsá

Manuel Tolsá Sarrión ( born May 4, 1757 Enguera, Valencia, † December 25, 1816 in Las Lagunas ) was a Spanish- Mexican architect and sculptor.

Life

Tolsá studied sculpture and architecture, first at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia and then in Madrid at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

In Spain, he was a sculptor to the King's Chamber and Chairman of the Committee on Trade, Currency and mines at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, before he was in 1790 determined to the director of the Real Academia de San Carlos de las Nobles Artes in Mexico City. When he departed from Cadiz to New Spain in February 1791, he was charged by King Charles IV not only books and Sculpting tools with them, but also casts of classical statues in the Vatican Museums. Upon arrival at the port of Vera Cruz, he married his girlfriend María Luisa Sanz de Téllez Girón y Espinosa.

In Mexico City, he was given additional untempered and the supervision over the municipal water and waste water system and the management of the reforestation work in Aladema Park and around the Colosseum transferred.

Then he turned to the building and art projects. Among other things, he completed work on the set up of Pedro de Arrieta Catedral de México in Mexico City. He was a builder of the Palacio de Minería (German: " Mining Palace " ), the old Buena Vista Palace, which today houses the Museo de San Carlos, and the house of the Marquis de Apartado in front of the Templo Mayor, the later Ferdinand VII served as a palace. The planned by Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara has been added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1997. For Charles IV in 1803 he created the equestrian statue " El Caballito " and the bust of Hernán Cortés in the Hospital de Jesús.

In addition to other buildings and sculptures designed Tolsá also furniture, altars and other church furnishings, designed cannon fonts and horse-drawn carriages. He opened a bath house and installed a ceramic kiln.

He contributed to the collection of the Real Academia de San Carlos de las Nobles Artes a collection of over 300 coins and medals, as well as molds and sculptures at. After he died in 1816 due to a stomach ulcer, his body was transferred to the mourning ceremony to San Fernando.

" El Caballito " ( The horse ) Avenida Tacuba, Mexico City

Hospicio Cabañas Guadalajara

Palacio de Minería Mexico City