Fermín Revueltas Sánchez

Fermín Revueltas Sánchez ( * July 7, 1901 in Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, † September 7, 1935 in Mexico City) was a Mexican painter.

Life

Fermín was one of the sons of Gregorio Revueltas Gutiérrez and Romana Sánchez Arias, one originating from northern Mexico family. From 1910 to 1913, the family Revueltas Sánchez went to Guadalajara. Due to the raging revolution in Mexico, the father chose a school education of his sons Fermín and Silvestre in the United States. In the period 1917-1920 she first visited the St. Edward College in Austin (Texas ) and then the school in Chicago. Back in Mexico Fermín Revueltas studied at the open-air painting school of Coyoacán.

He then became head of the " José María Velasco " school in Guadalupe ( Mexico City). In 1923 he was involved in the wall paintings of the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria with other renowned artists. In 1928, he joined the Partido Comunista Mexicano. He was active in various artists' associations, was also supporter of the Mexican Stridentism and later member of the revolutionary painter " 30-30 ".

In the middle of the wedding of his work, he died in 1935, leaving a large number of unfinished projects.

1991 turned Javier Audirac a documentary about his life and work entitled " Fermín Revueltas o El color" ( Fermín Revueltas or the color).