Manuel Rodulfo Tardo, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Manuel Rodulfo Tardo

Cuban artist

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1913

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1998

Profession: painter, sculptor

Nationality: Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Manuel Rodulfo Tardo (February 18, 1913 in Pueblo Nuevo, Mantanzas Province, Cuba – December 22, 1998 in New York City) was a Cuban artist.
He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro", Havana, Cuba, together with Juan Esnard Heydrich y José Francisco Cobos,and at The Sculpture Center, New York CityA.
One of his mentors was the Cuban sculptor Juan José Sicre.
He was a painter as well as a sculptor.He founded the Provincial School of Fine Arts (La Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Matanzas) with Rafael Soriano, José Felipe Núñez, Juan Esnard Heydrich and Roberto Juan Diago Querol and was elected five times as its Director.