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Abelardo Rodríguez Urdaneta

Abelardo Rodríguez Urdaneta (June 24, 1870 – January 11, 1933) was a Dominican sculptor, photographer, painter and educator. A prolific artist, he was one of the first successful multidisciplinary artists of the modern art era in the Dominican Republic and is considered to be one of the forerunners of Dominican sculpture, photography, and painting. His creative work consists of a large number of portraits, busts, statues, monuments and pictorial paintings in which he collected important moments in the country's history that reflected the lives of social leaders, merchants, and families of the time. In 1908, Urdaneta opened an academy of drawing,painting, and sculpture that trained many prominent artists, including Celeste Woss y Gil, Delia Weber, Genoveva Báez, Aida Ibarra and Fernando 'Tuto' Báez. He kept his academy active until 1933, the year of his death. Many of his works are currently conserved in the Museum of Modern Art and Museo Bellapart in Santo Domingo. In the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, his statue, "Caonabo,” stands. Two reproductions made in Italy of this work are in the Mirador Park and in Santiago. One of the streets in the Gascue neighborhood bears his name and the house where he was born became a museum that preserves archives, photos, paintings, and chronicles. In honor of his work, the Rodríguez Urdaneta Photography Contest, created in April 1981, and the Abelardo Rodríguez Urdaneta FUNGLODE Photography Contest, created in 2007, are named after him.

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• ▸Fairman Rogers
• ▸Dietitian
• ▸Jan Bułhak

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