Fanny Rabel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fanny Rabel

Mexican artist

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1922

Place of Birth: Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 25-Nov-2008

Profession: painter, sculptor

Nationality: Poland, Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Fanny Rabel (August 27, 1922 in Poland – November 25, 2008 in Mexico City), born Fanny Rabinovich, was a Polish-born Mexican artist who is considered to be the first modern female muralist and one of the youngest associated with the Mexican muralism of the early to mid 20th century.
She and her family arrived to Mexico in 1938 from Europe and she studied art at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda", where she met and became friends with Frida Kahlo.
She became the only female member of “Los Fridos” a group of students under Kahlo’s tutelage.
She also worked as an assistant and apprentice to Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, painting a number of murals of her own during her career.
The most significant of these is "Ronda en el tiempo" at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City.
She also created canvases and other works, with children often featured in her work, and was one of the first of her generation to work with ecological themes in a series of works begun in 1979.