Carlos Alvarado Lang (January 14, 1905 – September 3, 1961)
was a Mexican
printmaker
Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ...
and professor. He taught metal
engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass ...
and later served as the program director at
Academy of San Carlos
The Academy of San Carlos ( es, Academia de San Carlos) is located at 22 Academia Street in just northeast of the main plaza of Mexico City. It was the first major art academy and the first art museum in the Americas. It was founded in 1781 as th ...
, from 1929 to 1949.
Biography
Carlos Alvarado Lang was born January 14, 1905, in
La Piedad de Cabadas,
Michoacán
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,
Mexico
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.
When he was age 14, he began his studies in the
National School of Fine Arts (Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Nacional autónoma de México).
Alvarado Lang studied printmaking under engraver
Emiliano Valadéz at the Academy of San Carlos (
Spanish
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: ''Academia de San Carlos'', also ''Escuela Nacional de San Carlos'') in Mexico City.
In 1929, he followed Emiliano Valadéz on his chair. After the coursework offer at the Academy of San Carlos was expanded in 1930, he got the chair of metal
engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass ...
.
From 1942 to 1949 he was director of the Academy of San Carlos. He had many notable students, including
Lola Cueto
María Dolores Velázquez Rivas, better known as "Lola" Cueto (Azcapotzalco, March 2, 1897 – Mexico City, January 24, 1978) was a Mexican painter, printmaker, puppet designer and puppeteer. She is best known for her work in children’s thea ...
.
Posthumously his works were exhibited at the
(1963); in the
Museo de Arte Moderno
The Museo de Arte Moderno (Museum of Modern Art) is located in Chapultepec park, Mexico City, Mexico.
The museum is part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura and provides exhibitions of national and international contemporary a ...
(1971); the museum of the
Palacio de Bellas Artes
The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) is a prominent cultural center in Mexico City. It has hosted notable events in music, dance, theatre, opera and literature in Mexico and has held important exhibitions of painting, sculpture and p ...
(1981); and in further notable institutions.
Collections
Alvarado Lang's work is in many public museum collections, including:
References
External links
Archive of website CarlosAlvaradoLang.com in Spanish
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Mexican engravers
Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Mexican printmakers
People from La Piedad
Artists from Michoacán
1905 births
1961 deaths
20th-century engravers
Academic staff of Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda"