Servando Cabrera Moreno [SEP] date of death
Servando Cabrera Moreno
Servando Cabrera Moreno (1923–1981) was a Cuban painter. A supporter of the Cuban Revolution, many of his paintings depict the Cuban peasantry. Stylistically, his paintings are rooted in the tradition of vanguardia, and are especially indebted to the work of Carlos Enríquez Gómez.
Servando Cabrera Moreno was born in Havana, Cuba on May 28, 1923. He graduated from the San Alejandro Academy after completing studies at the Art Student's League in NY and La Grande Chaumière in Paris. His first individual exhibition
UNESCO and AIAP. He knew Peggy Guggenheim.
In the 1980s he was the teacher of Victor Miquel Moreno Piñeiro (Victor Moreno), cousin of Servando Cabrera Moreno.
Artworks.
As well as a painter and sculptor, Portocarrero worked as a ceramicist, scenic designer and book illustrator, publishing his own "Las Máscaras" (The Masks) in 1935 and "El Sueño" (The Dream) in 1939. He was also a muralist, producing public artworks for the Havana Prison, a church in Bauta