Oliverio Martínez

alt=Oliverio Martínez's sculpture Independencia at the Monumento a la Revolución. Oliverio Martínez's sculpture Independencia at the Monumento a la Revolución. Oliverio Guillermo Martínez de Hoyos (January 30, 1901 – January 21, 1938) was a Mexican sculptor.

Biography Oliverio Martínez was born in born in Piedras Negras, Mexico, in 1901.

Starting in 1925, he lived in New York, working for Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México. He studied at Mexico City's Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes from 1928 to 1930.

In November 1933, a committee began considering proposals for Mexico City's Monumento a la Revolución, a major landmark commemorating the Mexican Revolution. Martínez's Transformación was named one of the finalists alongside proposals by Federico Canessi and Fernando Leal. After creating life-size 11-meter models of his four proposed sculptures—La Independencia, Las Leyes de Reforma, Las Leyes Agrarias, and Las Leyes Obrera—Martínez won the competition and contributed the sculptures to the structure.

In 1936, Martínez became interim director of the Escuela de Escultura y Talla Directa. Working in New York a decade earlier, he had contracted debilitating tuberculosis, and he died in Mexico City at the young age of 36.

Notable works

Sculpture of Emilio Carranza in Saltillo (1930) Sculpture of Emiliano Zapata in Cuautla (1932) Sculptures La Independencia, Las Leyes de Reforma, Las Leyes Agrarias, and Las Leyes Obrera on the Monumento a la Revolución, Mexico City (1934)