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Alfredo Zalce
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biography
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(b. Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico, 1908). This Mexican painter, printmaker and teacher moved at an early age with his parents, who were both professional photographers to Mexico City and studied at the Academia de San Carlos (1924-9) and at the Escuela de Grabado y Talla Directa. In 1930 he founded the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura in Taxco. He was also a member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (LEAR) and an early member in 1937 of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, actively taking part in their group exhibitions and publications until 1950. He practiced primarily as a printmaker with a clear and precise draughtsmanship; he published, for example, a portfolio of eight lithographs, Estampas de Yucatán (1945), after traveling through the area for several months. Zalce moved to Morelia, Michoacán and became director (1950) of the Escuela de Pinturas y Artesanías, a school of applied arts and design. In addition to his career as a teacher he was active politically. He was involved with the muralist movement in Mexico, and in 1930, in collaboration with Isabel Villaseñor, he was the first in Mexico to use coloured concrete for murals, in their work on the external walls of the Escuela de Ayotla in Tlaxaca.
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