Saturnino Herrán
Saturnino Herrán Guinchard ( born July 9, 1887 in Aguascalientes, † October 8, 1918 in Mexico City) was a Mexican painter.
Biography
Saturnino Herrán was the son of Professor José Herrán, former treasurer in the state of Aguascalientes and owner of the only library in the city of Aguascalientes, and his wife Josefa Guinchard, who came from the French-speaking Switzerland. His father died already in 1903. Two years later drew the impoverished family to Mexico City, where Herrán enrolled at out at this time of Antonio Rivas Mercado Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes ( ENBA ) and studied painting under Antonio Fabrés and Germán Gedovius. In addition, he earned a living for the family. With a scholarship he could finish the study. In 1909 he taught briefly as a professor of drawing at the ENBA and received a scholarship to Europe, which he had to decline because he could not leave his mother alone. 1912 were asked his pictures and he learned Rosario Arellano, whom he married two years thereafter, was born in the year when his only son. In October 1918, Saturnino Herrán was operated on for a stomach complaint and died a few days later.
Some of his paintings are now in the Palacio de Bellas Artes. His son José Francisco later became a chemist and was a high school teacher at the UNAM. He died in 1970.