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1925
Military man and historian José Miró Argenter died
02 de Mayo de 1925
He was born in Cataluña, Spain, in March 4th, 1851, and died in Havana, in May 2nd, 1925. He came to Cuba in 1874, in 1878 he settled in Oriente where he met Antonio Maceo. Imprisoned in the jail of Santiago de Cuba, he took the chance to conspirate with Guillermón Moncada. In 1895 he joined the revolution under Bartolomé Masó´s orders. He was promoted to Division General, becoming Antonio Maceo General Lieutenant of Antonio Maceo´s General Staff, developing with him the East-West Invassion Campaign.
He was also member of the Comisión Revisadora y Liquidadora of the Liberation Army (MambÃ) and was in charge of its archives. Collaborator from different newspapers, his main work, Crónicas de la Guerra de Cuba, was published in 1909.
1957
Painter and writer Carlos EnrÃquez died.
02 de Mayo de 1957
He was born in August 3rd, 1901 and died in May 2nd, 1957. He studied elementary school in his hometown and in Havana. He graduated High School in 1920. Sent by his family to the United States, he studied Commerce in the Pearce School, Trenton. Later he entered in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, to study painting, but was expelled, because of incompatibility between his artistic sensibility and the academic studies he studied there. Back to Havana, in 1925, he joined soon the Cuban Visual Art Movement «Generación del 27» (Generation of 27) headed by VÃctor Manuel.
He was an intense collaborator of Revista de Avance. During those years he worked as administrater of one of his brother in law´s coal houses. Back to New York he settled in Greenwich Village. In 1930 he went back to Havana and left to Europe. From 1930 to 1934 he travelled to France, Spain, Italy and England. From 1934 he settled in Havana. In 1938 he painted El rapto de las mulatas.
His paintings has been exhibited in more than forty expositions since 1927, in Havana, Spain, Mexico, United States, Guatemala, Haiti and Argentine. He died in Havana, in May 2nd, 1957.
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