Xavier Moyssén EcheverrÃa
Xavier Moyssén Echeverría ( born October 27, 1924 in Morelia, † July 3, 2001 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican art historian.
Life
After he had spent his childhood and school years in Toluca, Moyssén went to Mexico City, there to attend the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM) to study history. At the UNAM he acquired in art history to M. A. - and the doctorate.
He then worked at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (Research Institute for aesthetics ) of the UNAM, and there he sat apart with the artistic disciplines. Parallel to this, he taught as a professor from March 1959 Mexican and Latin American literature at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria. In 1965 he was awarded the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the UNAM and from 1971 he was also at the local Seminario de Arte Contemporáneo (Department of Contemporary Art) active.
In particular, Moyssén dealt with the neuhispanischen art and 20th-century art and has written numerous books and articles. He was also a member of the Präservierungskomitees Conaculta and an honorary member of the Academia de Artes.