Artist Francisco Goitia was born on October 4, 1882, in Zacatecas. His mother died in childbirth and he was raised by a wet nurse. Goitia eventually went to Mexico City to study art at the Academy San Carlos. Finding the academic form too strict to his liking, he traveled to Barcelona and studied, creating a group of charcoal drawings which were so well received he was granted a stipend from the Mexican government to travel Europe more extensively. He worked in a realistic style with, at times, some Expressionism and Impressionistic tendencies.
He returned to Mexico with the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution and became a cultural attache for a time, traveling with Francisco Villa's army and documenting the war. Following his stint in the army Goitia worked with various anthropologists depicting history and indigenous cultures. He spent the bulk of his life thereafter living as a recluse in Xochimilco.
Goitia won only one recognition for his work, the Grand International Prize of the Bienal de Pintura y Grabado de las Americas, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, for the work "Tata Jesucristo" (below).
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