Carlos Alvarado Lang (January 14, 1905 – September 3, 1961) was a Mexican

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed technique ...

and professor. He taught metal

engraving Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass ar ...

and later served as the program director at Academy of San Carlos, from 1929 to 1949.

Biography

Carlos Alvarado Lang was born January 14, 1905, in La Piedad de Cabadas,

Michoacán Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo, is one of the 31 states which, together with Mexico City, compose the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The stat ...

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. When he was age 14, he began his studies in the National School of Fine Arts (Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Nacional autónoma de México). Alvarado Lang studied printmaking under engraver Emiliano Valadéz at the Academy of San Carlos ( Spanish: ''Academia de San Carlos'', also ''Escuela Nacional de San Carlos'') in Mexico City. In 1929, he followed Emiliano Valadéz on his chair. After the coursework offer at the Academy of San Carlos was expanded in 1930, he got the chair of metal

. From 1942 to 1949 he was director of the Academy of San Carlos. He had many notable students, including Lola Cueto. Posthumously his works were exhibited at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" (1963); in the Museo de Arte Moderno (1971); the museum of the

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(1981); and in further notable institutions.

Collections

Alvarado Lang's work is in many public museum collections, including:

References

External links

Archive of website CarlosAlvaradoLang.com
in Spanish {{DEFAULTSORT:Alvarado Lang, Carlos Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico Mexican printmakers People from La Piedad Artists from Michoacán 1905 births 1961 deaths 20th-century Mexican engravers Academic staff of Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda"