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1913 San Luis Potosí - 1990 Ciudad de México. Known for: Abstract, surreal symbolic image painting, printmaking, postage stamp design.
Francisco Eppens began his studies at the Academy of San Carlos under the guidance of teachers Enrique Ugarte and Ignacio Asúnsolo. From 1935 he worked in the Stamp and Securities Printing Workshops... Read full biography
Francisco Eppens began his studies at the Academy of San Carlos under the guidance of teachers Enrique Ugarte and Ignacio Asúnsolo. From 1935 he worked in the Stamp and Securities Printing Workshops in the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of the Federal Government, with the task of executing... Read full biography
Francisco Eppens began his studies at the Academy of San Carlos under the guidance of teachers Enrique Ugarte and Ignacio Asúnsolo. From 1935 he worked in the Stamp and Securities Printing Workshops in the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of the Federal Government, with the task of executing the originals of the postage stamps and of the fiscal stamps. He abandoned this work to make a mural at the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM. In 1969 he was distinguished by the government with the task... Read full biography
Francisco Eppens began his studies at the Academy of San Carlos under the guidance of teachers Enrique Ugarte and Ignacio Asúnsolo. From 1935 he worked in the Stamp and Securities Printing Workshops in the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of the Federal Government, with the task of executing the originals of the postage stamps and of the fiscal stamps. He abandoned this work to make a mural at the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM. In 1969 he was distinguished by the government with the task of drawing and coloring the new shield of the Mexican Nation, currently in use in all official documents. The art of Eppens can be typified as that of a contemporary painter of the school of critical realism, typical of the Mexican Renaissance;... Read full biography
Francisco Eppens began his studies at the Academy of San Carlos under the guidance of teachers Enrique Ugarte and Ignacio Asúnsolo. From 1935 he worked in the Stamp and Securities Printing Workshops in the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of the Federal Government, with the task of executing the originals of the postage stamps and of the fiscal stamps. He abandoned this work to make a mural at the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM. In 1969 he was distinguished by the government with the task of drawing and coloring the new shield of the Mexican Nation, currently in use in all official documents. The art of Eppens can be typified as that of a contemporary painter of the school of critical realism, typical of the Mexican Renaissance; nationalist ethnographic base and with the undoubted influence of pre-Hispanic indigenous ceramics, painting, sculpture and architecture of... Read full biography
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Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstract Figurative, Human Figure
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Fruit Still Life
- •Portraits, Portraiture