Eduardo Michaelsen
Painting, Visual Artist
1920 – 2010
Who was Eduardo Michaelsen?
Eduardo Michaelsen was a Cuban painter. He was known mainly for naïve painting depicting Cuban folklore.
Born as Eduardo Apolonio Michaelsen y Rivery in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, in 1944 he studied for five months at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in Havana. In 1967 he created a Course on Museography, at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana. Among visual arts he worked mainly in paintings.
From 1955 until 1972 he was Technical Assistant in the museum's restoration department. He arrived in 1980 in the United States via the Mariel Boatlift, and resided in San Francisco, California until his death in 2010, aged 89 in San Francisco, California. A short documentary film titled "Eduardo Michaelsen -Color y Tradición" about his life and artistic creations was produced by Cuban film directors Rafael Matos and Rafael Arzuaga.
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