Happy Birthday Olga Costa!
Born in Germany on August 28, 1913, Olga Costa immigrated to Mexico at age 12. Although she was only able to attend Academy of San Carlos for three months, she continued to successfully teach herself to paint. She was married to fellow artist Jose Chavez Morado and they relocated to Veracruz where he began a painting school. Her first artistic endeavors were to paint the halls of the teachers' college there.
Her early work was greatly influenced by the Mexican muralist movement. With no formal training, her paintings often exhibited distortion, skewed proportions: an innocence. she painted Mexican themed still life, landscapes, portraits and costumbrista. Later she exhibited a more academic and formal style with a varied color palette. Costa's creations were exhibited and sold in the US as well as Mexico.
In addition to her own art, Olga Costa was a promoter of the arts. She and her husband opened galleries, founded museums and donated art. She received several awards and a book was written about her life in 1984.
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