Amelia Peláez

Amelia Peláez del Casal (Known as "Amelia")

Master Modernist Painter, Muralist, Pioneering Ceramist

Born 1896-01-05

Yaguajay, Las Villas, Cuba

Passed Away 1968-04-08 Havana, Cuba

Lifespan 72 years old

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"The light through our colored stained glass transforms ordinary fruit and pottery into sacred architecture."

Archival Overview

Vanguard Cuban modernist painter whose distinctive still lifes with heavy black outlines, colonial architectural arabesques, and luminous stained-glass palettes redefined 20th-century Latin American art.

Biographical Record

Amelia Peláez was born in Yaguajay on January 5, 1896. After graduating from the San Alejandro Academy, she spent seven transformative years in Paris studying with Alexandra Exter, mastering synthetic cubism and dynamic spatial organization.

Returning to her family home in La Víbora, Havana, in 1934, Peláez translated cubist discipline into a lavishly Cuban visual language: vibrant tropical fruits, colonial arches, and fanlight windows (medio punto vitrales). Her monumental ceramic mural on the facade of the Hotel Habana Libre stands as a landmark of modern Caribbean design.

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Colón Cemetery (Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón)
Havana, Cuba

                         GPS: 23.1230, -82.4010                    

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