Roberto Montenegro

Roberto Montenegro Nervo ( born February 19, 1887 in Guadalajara, † October 13, 1968 in Mexico City) was a Mexican artist.

Biography

Montenegro was the son of Colonel Ignacio Montenegro and his wife María Nervo, the aunt of the poet Amado Nervo, in Guadalajara. From 1904 to 1905 he studied in his birthplace, in 1906 at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, where he graduated acquaintance with the academy associated artists Diego Rivera, Jorge Enciso and Juan Tablada. In the same year he was awarded a state scholarship and went to the end of the year to Europe, where he studied painting in Paris for two years and was also involved in exhibitions. During this time he also traveled to London and Italy. In Mexico, where in 1910 the Revolution began, he joined in his home town, founded by Gerald Murillo circle of artists. From 1913 back in Europe, he assisted with Rubén Darío at the Paris École des Beaux -Arts, but went with Antonio de la Gándara during the First World War to Mallorca, where he also worked on several murals in public buildings. From 1917 he exhibited his works in Barcelona, Madrid and London, before returning to Mexico in 1919 and from 1920 to cooperate in the design of the National Theatre of Mexico. He was friends with José Vasconcelos, whose work he had influenced. He became head of the Department of Arts sculptor of the Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP ) and founded in Mexico City the first Pop Art museum. In 1922 he designed the Mexican pavilion in the " Centenario de la Independencia de Brasil " in Rio de Janeiro. In the same year he organized the "Fiesta de la Santa Cruz " for the first time in the recently closed, antique library Colegio Máximo de San Pedro y San Pablo. Until 1933 he worked on a variety of known wall paintings and pictures. In 1934 he became director of the Museo de Artes Populares de Bellas Artes. He also worked as a stage designer, exhibition organizer, founded more museums, published his images and made other known wall paintings. Even in his last year, he was one of the founding members of the Academia de Artes ..