Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas

Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas (24 October 1899 – 14 February 1950) was a Bolivian painter and a leader of the indigenous art movement. He is considered Bolivia's preeminent artist from the first half of the 20th century.

Life Guzmán de Rojas was born in Potosí, Bolivia. His father, Cecilio Guzmán Blanco, was a Spanish teacher from Cochabamba, and his mother, Justa Rojas, loved painting and instilled him with an artistic sensibility from a young age. José Moreno Carbonero, and Manuel Benedito. During his time there, he made reproductions of Spanish Golden Age painters.

He was the father of the noted mathematician, scientist and linguist Iván Guzmán de Rojas.

He died by suicide in the bucolic landscape of Llojeta, La Paz, shooting himself twice in the chest. He did not leave a suicide note, and it is not known for certain why he took his own life.