Yela Loffredo

Yela Loffredo Rodríguez, later known as Yela de Klein (July 22, 1924 – May 16, 2020) was an Ecuadorian sculptor who directed Guayaquil's museum and led the culture department at Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral.

Life Loffredo was born in Guayaquil in 1924. She was one of the thirteen children of Julia Rodríguez and Salvatore Loffredo. Her father was an Italian emigrant. Every year for 53 years (until COVID) there was an exhibition and the first was outside her house.

In 1971 she became the director of Guayaquil's municipal museum.

She led the cultural department of the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) for 32 years starting in 1979. In 1999 he was awarded the Eugenio Espejo National Prize for Culture.

In 2022 there was a retrospective exhibition of her work in "her" museum. The poet and writer Rosa Amelia Alvarado made an open request to the city's mayor to suggest that the Guayaquil Municipal Museum should be renamed after Yela Loffredo.