Taller de Gráfica Popular

The Taller de Grafica Popular ( Workshop of the People graphic artist, TGP ) was an alliance of international artists in Mexico.

It was founded in 1937 and had at times over one hundred members. Significant members of the association were Ignacio Aguirre, Raúl Anguiano, Luis Arenal, Alberto Beltrán, Angel Bracho, Celia Calderon de la Barca, Elizabeth Catlett, José Chávez Morado, Coney Cohen and Jean Charlot, Francisco Dosamantes, Arturo Garcia Bustos, Alfred Hrdlicka, Carlos Jurado, Max Kahn, Adolfo Mexiac, Leopoldo Méndez and Hannes Meyer and Francisco Mora, Pablo O'Higgins, Isidoro Ocampo, Mariano Paredes, Antonio Pujol, Koloman Sokol, Albe Steiner, Mariana Yampolsky and Alfredo Zalce.

The in the " Taller de Grafica Popular " brought together artists created political- graphic leaflets and posters for the common people. The leaflets were produced as lithographs and pulled off by hand. They promoted trade unions and public education and for the socialist president of Mexico, Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, denounced the persecution of teachers by the Catholic Church and the crimes of European fascism. Two members of the " Taller de Grafica Popular " participated in an attack on the border because the Mexican exile Leon Trotsky. Thus, the relations with the Communist Party of Mexico were loaded, and some artists left the group. After the Second World War, the national sovereignty and military interventions by the U.S. against Honduras, Guatemala and Cuba, as well as the peace were discussed on the posters and leaflets. The graphics have now been produced as linocuts and reproduced by means of a horizontal press. It created graphics for the subtitling of films by director Justino Fernández, slide shows and movies on the history of the labor movement. When the Peace Prize to Leopoldo Méndez and the " Taller de Grafica Popular " was awarded, there were clashes, which resulted in leaked many artists. Yet emerged in the aftermath some graphics for women's rights and peace, but the association lost its significance. As disagreements between communist, social democratic and liberal artists appeared, ended the creative period of the " Taller de Grafica Popular ."

The Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin has an extensive collection of posters and leaflets of these artists' association.