HAMBURG REVIEW

July 1928

        Diego Rivera in Town!

Last month we we stumbled upon the well known Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera, as he was preparing to continue on his way back to America, and we managed to obtain the following remarks:

HR:    What brings you to Hamburg, Diego?

DR:    I'm returning from Moscow, where I've been for about 8 months, to go home to Mexico.

HR:    What brought you to Moscow?

DR:    Last year I was invited by the Russian People's Commissar, Lunacharsky, to visit the Soviet Union as a guest painter for the Tenth Anniversary celebration of the October Revolution, and so I went, via Berlin!

HR:    October Fest?

DR:    Not Really...  But I did some interesting paintings there, in Berlin.

HR:    Did you work on murals in Moscow?

DR:    No, I had hoped to get an assignment there, but it never happened...

HR:    How was Moscow, otherwise?

DR:    Well, I was impressed by seeing the organized marching and movement of people.  It would be snowing in the morning, and the marching mass was dark, compact, rhythmically united, elastic, and had the floating motion of a snake.  But it was more awesome than any serpent I could imagine!  I made quite a few watercolors; check a few of them:

Desmond Rochford, "mexican muralists", Cronicle Books, p20, 1998.

Diego Rivera, "My Art, my Life - An Autobiography", Dover Publications, Inc., p94, 1991.

Diego Rivera self-portrait, 1930

Check out Water color paintings of Diego Rivera for more of Diego's works...