Juan O'Gorman was a Mexican painter and architect.
12 Facts About Juan O'Gorman
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Juan O'Gorman was born on 6 July 1905 in Coyoacan, then a village to the south of Mexico City and now a borough of the Federal District, to an Irish immigrant father, Cecil and Encarnacion O'Gorman.
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Juan O'Gorman had three younger siblings, Edmundo, Margarita and Tomas.
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Juan O'Gorman later married Helen Fowler, an American artist with whom he had an adopted daughter.
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In 1929, Juan O'Gorman purchased a plot containing two tennis courts in Mexico City's San Angel colonia.
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Juan O'Gorman dubbed the house the first functionalist structure in Latin America.
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Diego Rivera, a contemporary of Juan O'Gorman, impressed with the design of the Cecil Juan O'Gorman House, commissioned the architect to design a home for him and Frida Kahlo on an adjacent plot.
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Juan O'Gorman's most celebrated work due to its creativity, construction technique, and dimensions, are the four thousand square meters murals covering the four faces of the building of the Central Library at Ciudad Universitaria at UNAM.
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Juan O'Gorman built and designed his own house in the suburb of Pedregal, which was part built structure part natural cave, which is known as "The Cave House" from 1953 to 1956.
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Juan O'Gorman painted the murals in the Independence Room in Mexico City's Chapultepec Castle, and the huge murals of his own 1952 Central Library of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, designed with Gustavo Saavedra and Juan Martinez de Velasco.
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In 1959, together with fellow artists, Raul Anguiano, Jesus Guerrero Galvan, and Carlos Orozco Romero, Juan O'Gorman founded the militant Union de Pintores y Grabadores de Mexico.
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Juan O'Gorman died on 17 January 1982, as a result of suicide.