José Sabogal

José Arnaldo Sabogal Diéguez (March 19, 1888, in Cajabamba – December 15, 1956, in Lima) was a Peruvian painter, muralist, and educator. He was "the most renowned early supporter" and thus a leader in the artistic indigenist movement of his country. As Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, and Ana M. López assert, Sabogal "became Peru's militant indigenist and aesthetic nationalist, and led this movement for the next thirty years."

Biography José Arnaldo Sabogal Diéguez was born on March 19, 1888 in Cajabamba, Cajamarca, Peru.

The surname Sabogal originated in Hungary and is the portmanteau of the two most common surnames in Hungary, Sabo and Gal.

He traveled extensively in Europe (particularly Italy) and North Africa from 1908 to 1913 before enrolling in the National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he studied for five years.

In 1922, he married a poet and writer María Wiesse. The couple had two children: José Rodolfo Sabogal Wiesse (1923–1983), and Rosa Teresa Sabogal Wiesse (1925–1985).

Sabogal taught at the National Superior Autonomous School of Fine Arts, Lima from 1920 and onward.

Sabogal decided to promote Peruvian art to international audiences after a 1922 visit to Mexico where he met Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Ricardo Miguel Sabogal-Suji, relative of José Sabogal, also born in Cajabamba on March 19, like the painter, Ph.D. in anthropology, educated in Peru, Italy, England, and the United States, recalls that the Peruvian intellectual José Carlos Mariátegui stated that José Sabogal Diéguez is the first Peruvian painter par excellence. Ricardo Sabogal-Suji agrees. Despite studying in Italy, Ricardo Sabogal-Suji says, José Sabogal created an artistic school of painting unique to Peru and was the first to break away from European academicism.

Written work Mates burilados: Arte vernacular peruano (1945); Pancho Fierro, estampas del pintor peruano (1945); El toro en las artes populares del Perú (The bull in the Peruvian popular arts) (1949); El "kero", vaso de libaciones cusqueño de madera pintada (1952); El desván de la imaginería peruana (1956, 1988); Del arte en el Perú y otros ensayos (About Peruvian art and other essays) (1975). Tribute

On 19 March 2014, Google celebrated José Sabogal's 125th Birthday with a doodle.