Artists

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Novelist, poet, short story writer, Cartagena essayist

1938-2007

He was a Colombian novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. He is the author of forty books, in the genres of poetry, novels, short stories, essays and biography, among which La tejedora de coronas published in 1982 stands out.

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Founder and director of the international film festival of Cartagena journalist

1916-2008

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He was known as one of the most devoted explorers of Cartagena's trajectories, of its historical alternatives, of its human values, of its architectural projection.

In the record of Colombian history, and more specifically that of Cartagena, the name of Donaldo Bossa Herazo always occupied a place of authentic excellence.

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Cartagena historian, writer and journalist was Colombia's ambassador before UNESCO

1914-1994

He was a Colombian historian, writer, journalist, and politician.

He also served as ambassador to UNESCO; He acted as president of the Cartagena Academy of History and a member of several national and foreign academies, including the corresponding Colombian Academy of History.

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Outstanding spanish sculptor creator of the india catalina monument

1929-2011

In 1961 he emigrated to Cartagena de Indias, (Colombia) where he immediately entered the School of Fine Arts as a sculpture and painting teacher. Its most significant monument is India Catalina.

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Colombian composer and musician

1905-1973

He was a Colombian composer and musician born in the municipality of Sincé, in the current department of Sucre in Colombia. He arrived in Cartagena in the year 1920, he lived his childhood and adolescence in a walled neighborhood of San Diego where his love for Cartagena began to flourish and he also began to discover his talent for musical composition.

Room 205 Standard

Cartagena writer and editor 1948

He was born in 1948 and to date he is alive; He was five years old when he learned to read clearly and with great intonation. At that time we presented stories characterized in the Heredia Theater, and as we still did not have Primary education we chose the actors in the Pre-school.

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Famous Colombian writer and chef famous book "Mis Postres"

Teresita Román de Zurek is a Colombian writer and chef. He was born in the city of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, on December 29, 1925 and to date he is alive.

Among his most productive and imaginary days, he took on the task of capturing all or most of his recipes in the book that we know today as Cartagena en la Olla, which went on sale in 1963.

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Cartagena writer

1907-1986

Author of the book local canvases, published in 1955 where he narrates the daily life of the city in the first half of the 20th century in a masterful and simple way

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Cartagena musician and composer

1904-1980

The teacher Pedro Laza Gutiérrez was a great exponent and legend for the folklore of the Atlantic coast. Because even when his father opposed his musical inclinations, he redoubled his efforts and by his own means learned the trade of music with mastery.

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Born in Cartagena, bud belonged to the group of 15 that he directed at the Cartagena School of Fine Arts, the painter and teacher Pierre Daguet.

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Born in Cartagena 1941 -Painter

I study plastic arts at the school of fine arts in Cartagena, under the direction of Pierre Daguet, promoter of a whole generation of artist

He has held shows and exhibitions in many places around the world.

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Cartagena photographer noted for his work on the Colombian Caribbean and the Amazon 1920-2015. He was born in Cartagena on September 1, 1920 and to date he is alive, he is a Colombian photographer, reporter and film projection technician, chronicler, photography teacher and Colombian globetrotter. The Colombian Caribbean, the Amazon, the Andean landscape, rural life, cities, towns, parties, anonymous faces, poverty, work, large and small urban events in Colombia and even the world, have been the main thematic axes of his work over several decades.

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Cartagena poet

1879-1950 Born in Cartagena de Indias on June 11, 1879, the eldest of eleven siblings, he grew up in a family with limited economic resources. He studied in local schools until high school (secondary school), to which he added drawing and painting studies. His city dedicated to him in 1957 as a tribute the sculpture The Old Shoes sculpted by Tito Lombana, inspired by his poem To my native city.

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Famous Cartagena painter noted for her works on Cartagena de Indias

1920-1971

He was born in 1920 and died in 1971, the same year as Enrique Grau and Alejandro Obregón. Porras and Grau were initially self-taught painters, since at that time there was no school that made art training possible in Cartagena. Therefore, his first stage of interest in painting is developed within the limits of the family environment.

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Born in Cartagena, poet, composer and painter

 1884-1961

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Cartagena plastic artist recognized for his numerous works

He was born in Cartagena de Indias in 1936.

He has received the following distinctions: Gold Medal II American Biennial of Graphic Arts, Cali (Colombia); Prize XXV National Salon of Visual Arts, Bogotá (Colombia); Mention VI International Engraving Biennial, Krakow (Poland); Medal of Merit, Government of Bolivar (Colombia); Mayor of Cartagena de Indias Medal (Colombia); Fundecar Medal and Historical Heritage Medal Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)

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Colombian dancer and choreographer, was born in Cartagena de Indias on September 10, 1957

He has a Cartagena family and was raised in Bogotá. According to her, it was her great-aunt Maruja de León de Luna who revealed her passion for art and spirituality. When he was younger, Restrepo already proved to be a person of great social sensitivity.

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He was born in Cartagena, president of Colombia and the author of the lyrics of the national anthem of Colombia, officially adopted in 1920. He led La Regeneración, which ended the federal regime of the United States of Colombia, promulgated the Constitution of Colombia of 1886 .

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Painter, draftsman, engraver and sculptor, he was born in Cartagena and died in paris, the sensuality of the female body was his obsession

1944-1988

Darío Morales shows a work full of great sensory charm among eroticism through its nudes and poetry shown in his still lifes. Another subject that he made with some constancy were many self-portrait motifs of which an exhibition was made at the Aberbach Fine Art Gallery in New York.

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Cartagena watercolorist and landscaper

1924-1970

Hernando Lemaitre Román had two individual exhibitions: one in Cartagena, in 1951, and another in Bogotá, at the Leo Matiz Gallery, in 1952.

He exhibited frequently in Cartagena, Bogotá and Medellín; and he was director, for several years, of the Museum of Modern Art in Cartagena.

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Painter

1920-1992

In his youth he traveled through Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, countries where he trained as a painter, returned to Colombia and settled in Cartagena.Thanks to him, expressionism acquired a great boom in Colombia from the fifties. In 1958 he was awarded the first prize at the Hispano-American Biennial in Madrid, and in the following decades he received a multitude of awards.

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Panamanian painter known for his Amerindian figures

1920-2004

He was a Colombian painter, known for his portraits of Amerindian and Afro-Colombian figures. He won the National Salon of Artists of Colombia. Grau was a member of the triumvirate of important 20th century Colombian artists that included Fernando Botero and Alejandro Obregón

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Writer, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature (1982)

1927-2014

He was born in Aracataca (Magdalena), on March 6, 1927. Gabriel García Márquez learned to write at the age of five, at the Montessori school in Aracataca, with the young and beautiful teacher Rosa Elena Fergusson, with whom he fell in love. Among his most important literary works are one hundred years of loneliness (Nobel Prize in literature), The Colonel has no one to write to him, love in times of cholera, among others.

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Plastic artist and teacher 1903-1980

Pierre Daguet, found the light of his Taiti in Cartagena de Indias and in his deep-water paradise in San Pedro de Majagua in the Rosario Islands.

Everything he touched and did passed through the filter of his artistic finesse: his canvases in which he privileged the landscape, the human figure, the naked body of women who created in him a poetic conjugated with the landscape: undine women, mermaid women in whose skin live the deep sea fish and women who in their underwater dance are deep sea fish.