MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO Mexican, 1902-2002 Retr

Provenance
From the artist
To Doris Heydn, the artist's second wife
To the present owner

Although she was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1913, Olga Kostakowsky would become a significant figure in the Mexican art world. After spending her childhood in Berlin, she and her family moved to Mexico City in 1925 where she studied at the National School of Plastic Arts with influential artists such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Rufino Tamayo. She later married painter José Chévez Morado, and decidedly changed her name to Olga Costa. Fully embracing the Mexican culture, Olga often featured the landscape and daily life of the Mexican people in her paintings. Showing appreciation for the community that honored her as one of their own, she donated her home and art collection to create the Olga Costa and José Chévez Morado Art Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico.