• Source: Juan Esnard Heydrich

Juan Esnard Heydrich (Matanzas 1917 – 1998) was a Cuban sculptor. His career took off in the 1970s with the new regime of Fidel Castro, who commissioned several monuments on the revolution and personalities of Cuban history.
He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro", 1935 – 1940, and founded with Rafael Soriano, Manuel Rodulfo Tardo, Roberto Juan Diago Querol and José Felipe Nuñez the Provincial School of Fine Arts in Matanzas. He is second cousin of Swiss-Cuban painter Garbade and grandson of Fernando Heydrich, sculptor and founder of the aqueduct of Matanzas.




Works


He was a successful sculptor, and his participation with the Juventudes Socialistas (Socialist Youth Organization) let him to be the commissioned the bust of Lieutenant General of the Liberation Army Antonio Maceo in the late 1950s. There were many technical problems, and Juan Esnard took advantage of his trip as a representative of Cuba in the Third World Congress of Youth and Students to Berlin 1951, to fuse the sculpture in stainless steel.
His ambition to dramatize political arguments is documented in his monument Nuestros muertos alcanzando los brazos. at the Museum-Memorial of Las Tunas. A human body is seen raising its clenched fist in a gesture of pain and force. It was a tribute for the 31st Anniversary of the Crime of Barbados. In this line of sculpting commemorative monuments, he made the sculptural ensemble in the Garden of the Vocational School of Exact Sciences Carlos Marx. Matanzas.




Exhibitions


Galería de Matanzas, Cuba,1951
Museo Nacional de Cuba, Habana, 1970
UNEAC, Habana, 1975
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, 1976
La Tertulia Museum, Cali, Colombia, 1976
Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Havanna, 1979
Museo Nacional, La Escultura en la Revolución,Habana, 1983




Awards


Premio Nacional de Escultura, UNEAC 78
Secundo premio de Escultura, Salon de Arte, Havanna
Distinción de la Cultura Cubana
Distinción Raúl Gómez García.




Monuments


Monument José Martí, Auras, 1942
Monument Las madres, 1954
Monument José Martí, Matanzas
Monument Nuestros muertos alzando los brazos in the gardens of the IPVCE Carlos Marx Matanzas




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Juan Esnard Heydrich
• Fernando Heydrich
• Roberto Juan Diago Querol
• Daniel Garbade
• Manuel Rodulfo Tardo
• Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro