Angel Zarraga - Artist Info

About Angel Zarraga

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Angel Zarraga Arguelles
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    Angel Zarraga (y) Argüelles was a Mexican painter. He was founding member of the cultural organization El Ateneo de la Juventud.

    Zárraga was born as son of the physician Dr. Fernando Zárraga and his wife Guadalupe Argüelles in the Barrio de Analco of Durango. While he visited the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria in Mexico City, he made first contacts with the artistic and intellectual scene, and studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (ENBA). His family enabled 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 1907 in an e...

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