Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo

Colombian artist

Date of Birth: 30-Dec-1910

Date of Death: 12-Jul-1970

Profession: painter

Nationality: Colombia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Ignacio Gomez Jaramillo (Medellín, 30 December 1910 - Coveñas, 12 July 1970) was a Colombian painter, drawer, and muralist.
Gomez Jaramillo was one of Colombia's most important artists of the 20th century.
He was part of the Colombian Muralist Movement along with Santiago Martinez Delgado and Pedro Nel Gómez.
He won first place in painting in the 1940 and 1961 years of the Salon of Colombian Artists. Jaramillo was known as an "atitrabista" for his defense of post-modern Colombian Art.
He was a professor at the Fine Arts School of Bogotá. Some of his paintings are part of the permanent collection at the Colombian National Museum.
His mural, The Liberation of Slaves, is also featured in the Room of Artistic Heritage in the Rafael Uribe Uribe Palace of Culture.