Obra de angel zarraga biography

Mexican painter

Ángel Zárraga (y) Argüelles (August 16, 1886 in Victoria de Durango – September 22, 1946) was a Mexican painter.

Obra de angel zarraga biography

He was a founding member of the cultural organization El Ateneo de la Juventud. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Biography

Zárraga was born the son of the physician Dr.

Fernando Zárraga and his wife Guadalupe Argüelles in the Barrio de Analco of Durango. While attending the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria in Mexico City, he made his first contacts with the prevailing artistic and intellectual scene, and later studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (ENBA).

His family made possible for him a study trip to Europe in 1904, where he visited and exhibited in Spain, France and Italy. He also visited courses at the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium.

In 1906 he exhibited some of his pictures in the Museo del Prado, and in 19