José Sabogal

José Sabogal

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Personal information

Birth name José Arnaldo Sabogal Diéguez

Born March 19, 1888

Cajabamba, Peru

Died December 15, 1956 (age 68)

Lima, Peru

Burial Cemetery Presbítero Matías Maestro

Nationality Peruvian

Family

Parents Manuela Diéguez de Florencia

Matías Sabogal

Spouse María Wiesse Romero

Children José, Rosa Teresa

Professional information

Occupation Painter, essayist, professor

 

José Arnaldo Sabogal Diéguez (Cajabamba, March 19, 1888 - Lima, December 15, 1956) was a Peruvian painter, professor and essayist. He was one of the first promoters and one of the leaders of the Peruvian indigenist 

 Biography

José Sabogal was born in the city of Cajabamba (Cajamarca) (Peru) on March 19, 1888 in a mestizo family, being the son of Matías Sabogal del Castillo and Manuela Diéguez de Florencia. In 1922 he married the writer María Wiesse Romero (1894-1964), daughter of the historian Carlos Wiesse Portocarrero. The marriage had two children: José Rodolfo Sabogal Wiesse (1923-1983) and Rosa Teresa Sabogal Wiesse (1925-1985).

The origin of the surname Sabogal is the Castilian word sabogal, which indicates a net to fish sabogas and which is mentioned in chapter XXIX of the second part of the old editions of Don Quixote de la Mancha. According to María Wiesse's book José Sabogal, the artist and the man, the painter's ancestors are believed to have come from a fishing village called Saboga in northern Spain.

José Sabogal traveled through Spain, southern France, Italy, and North Africa between 1908 and 1913 before beginning to study at the National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires (Argentina), where he studied for five years.23

Sabogal dedicated himself to promoting pre-Columbian culture and aesthetics.2 During a six-month stay in Cuzco, Sabogal became interested in depicting the city and its inhabitants in his paintings.3 In 1919, he held an exhibition of his paintings at the Casa Brandes in Lima, which attracted the attention of critics and the public.3

For José Carlos Mariátegui, Sabogal is the Peruvian painter par excellence. The reason is that Sabogal was the painter who broke with European academic colonialism and created his own national school with authentic Peruvian roots without being a copy of the dominant European art. Sabogal resurrected the artistic value, the roots and the dignity of the Peruvian in a unique, native, vernacular and original way. Sabogal decided to promote Peruvian art internationally after a visit to Mexico, where he met Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.3

From 1920, Sabogal taught at the Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes del Perú3 and between 1932 and 1943 he served as director of this institution.3

 He was artistic director of the magazine Amauta, whose first issue, published in 1926, bears a drawing of his authorship on the cover. Sabogal and Luis Eduardo Valcárcel later founded the Instituto Libre de Arte Peruano (Free Institute of Peruvian Art) at the National Museum of Peruvian Culture.3 His work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cusco.

His disciples include Camilo Blas, Enrique Camino Brent, Julia Codesido, Cota Carvallo, Jorge Segura, Aquiles Ralli, Gamaniel Palomino, Pedro Azabache Bustamante, Andrés Zevallos and Eladio Ruiz.

Art Works

With affection,

Ruben