Felipe Cossío del Pomar, Peruvian painter and political activist (born 1888)

Felipe Cossío del Pomar

Felipe Cossío del Pomar was a Peruvian painter and left-wing political activist. While in exile from Peru he founded an art school in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico in 1938. The school failed, but on his return in 1950 he founded the Instituto Allende, a university-level arts…