Adolfo Best Maugard

Adolfo Best Maugard was born in Mexico City on 11 June 1891. He studied the old masters in Europe and returned to Mexico in 1914; for the anthropologist Franz Boas, he drew more than two thousand pre-Hispanic ceramics. From these motifs he derived a drawing method based on seven elements, taught in schools when he headed arts education at the Secretariat of Public Education from 1921 to 1924. In 1931, the government put him in charge of accompanying Eisenstein in Mexico. He died in Athens on 25 August 1964.

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• Feature filmThe Blood StainLa mancha de sangreAdolfo Best Maugard · 1937Cinema