Lola Fernández (born 15 November 1926) in

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is a leading

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n teacher and abstract painter.

Life

Fernández was born in

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in 1926 but she moved with her family to Costa Rica whilst still a child. This was where she began her artistic training at the ''Escuela de Artes Plásticas'' (University of Costa Rica) in 1941. Francisco Amiguetti was one of the artists she studied under. She then studied abroad, first at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Colombia starting in 1950. In 1954 she went to Italy where she studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti until 1958. She had travelled also to Morocco, and the Middle East during the course and afterwards she went to Asia funded by UNESCO. During that time her travelling included Japan, India and China. She became a professor at the

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. Her students included

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.Chinchilla U., Darío (7 October 2010
''Falleció Virginia Pérez-Ratton, Premio Magón del 2009''
La Nación In 1980 her painting of a volcano was used on a Costa Rican stamp. She was given the

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in 1995. She was in the first wave of Costa Rican women artists that included

Margarita Bertheau Margarita Bertheau Odio (born in San José, Costa Rica on 13 May 1913; died in Escazú canton on 21 November 1975) was a Costa Rican painter and cultural promoter. The Costa Rican Art Museum states that she is known for "landscapes, portraits, wa ...

, Dinorah Bolandi and Sonia Romero. These four who all taught fine art at the University of Costa Rica are said to have created the second generation of Costa Rican women artists.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandez, Lola 1926 births Living people People from Cartagena, Colombia Costa Rican women artists 20th-century Costa Rican painters 21st-century Costa Rican painters 20th-century women artists 21st-century women artists Colombian emigrants to Costa Rica Academic staff of the University of Costa Rica