| Abraham Ángel | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Abraham Ángel Card Valdés |
| Born | March 7, 1905 El Oro, State of Mexico |
| Died | October 27, 1924 (aged 19)(suicide) Mexico City |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Field | painting |
| Training | Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City |
| Works | portraits, village scenes and landscapes |
Abraham Ángel Card Valdés (March 7, 1905 – October 27, 1924) was a Mexican artist known under his first name Abraham Ángel because his Scottish father forbade him to use the surname after he left the family when Abraham Ángel was a child.
After the father left the family the mother went with their children to Puebla where Abraham Angel spent his childhood before he went with his brother to Mexico City at the age of 11. In Mexico City he attended the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (also known as Academia de San Carlos), met Manuel Rodríguez Lozano in 1921, with whom he had an intensive affair, and gave lessons in drawing based on the methods of Adolfo Best Maugard.[1]
Abraham Ángel painted portraits, village scenes and landscapes. He used unnaturalistic colours and his paintings were of a naïve style. He died due to an overdose of morphine, after he suffered from depression.