Rafael Rodríguez Padilla
Sculpture, Visual Artist
1890 – 1929
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Who was Rafael Rodríguez Padilla?
Rafael Rodríguez Padilla was a Guatemalan painter, printmaker and sculptor. In 1920 he was cofounder and became the first director of the Guatemalan Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, which merged into the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas "Rafael Rodríguez Padilla".
Rodríguez studied sculpture under the Venezuelan Santiago González in Guatemala. Afterwards he went to Spain, where he finished his studies under Luis Muriel y López. After his return to Guatemala, he painted his famous self-portrait. He committed suicide in 1929.
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