Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a famous Mexican painter and muralist. He was born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato.
Rivera is famous for his 1933 mural, "Man at the Crossroads," for the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center. Before he finished the mural, people saw that there was an image of Vladimir Lenin and other communist images in it. Rivera was fired because of this and the mural was destroyed.
Rivera's wife, Frida Kahlo, was also a famous Mexican painter. He died in Mexico City of congestive heart failure at the age of 70.
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Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Diego Rivera, 1914
Rivera (left) accompanies the director Rudolf Engel (center) and vice-president Otto Nagel (right) of the Akademie der Künste der DDR; Berlin Ostbahnhof, March 21, 1956
House of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo (built by Juan O'Gorman in 1930)
Diego Rivera's Pan American Unity mural (1940) under restoration in the Roberts Family Gallery at SFMOMA, July 19, 2021; photo by Steven Saylor
