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Diego Rivera (Diego María Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez) was born on 13 December, 1886 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, is a miscellaneous. Discover Diego Rivera's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

Popular As Diego María Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez
Occupation miscellaneous
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 13 December, 1886
Birthday 13 December
Birthplace Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
Date of death 24 November, 1957
Died Place Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality Mexico

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Diego Rivera Height, Weight & Measurements

At 70 years old, Diego Rivera height is 6' 1" (1.85 m) .

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Height 6' 1" (1.85 m)
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Who Is Diego Rivera's Wife?

His wife is Emma Hurtado (29 July 1955 - 24 November 1957) ( his death), Frida Kahlo (8 December 1940 - 13 July 1954) ( her death), Frida Kahlo (21 August 1929 - 1939) ( divorced), Guadalupe Marín (June 1922 - 1928) ( divorced) ( 2 children), Maria (Marevna) Vorobieff-Stebelska (1918 - 1921) ( 1 child)

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Wife Emma Hurtado (29 July 1955 - 24 November 1957) ( his death), Frida Kahlo (8 December 1940 - 13 July 1954) ( her death), Frida Kahlo (21 August 1929 - 1939) ( divorced), Guadalupe Marín (June 1922 - 1928) ( divorced) ( 2 children), Maria (Marevna) Vorobieff-Stebelska (1918 - 1921) ( 1 child)
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Diego Rivera Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Diego Rivera worth at the age of 70 years old? Diego Rivera’s income source is mostly from being a successful Miscellaneous. He is from Mexico. We have estimated Diego Rivera's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
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Source of Income Miscellaneous

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1886

Diego Rivera was a revolutionary Mexican artist and controversial politician, whose actions fluctuated from supporting Joseph Stalin and Soviet communism to dealing with Henry Ford and other tycoons promoting Pan-Americanism. He was born Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez on December 8, 1886, in Guanajuato, Mexico, the son of Maria del Pilar Barrientos and Diego de la Rivera y Acosta. His twin brother, Carlos, died in infancy, and Diego Rivera was raised as the only child. His father was a municipal counselor in Guanajuato, and a man of liberal views. He arranged an art studio for young Rivera by covering the walls of his room with drawing paper and encouraging him to paint all over the walls from the age of three. His mother was an obstetrician and a very religious Catholic. Diego also had an Indian nanny, named Antonia, who was an inspiration for many of his paintings and nurtured his love for the indigenous culture.

1892

In 1892 the family moved to Mexico City, where Rivera's father worked for the Mexican government.

1898

Young Rivera studied at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City from 1898-1905.

1906

In 1906 he exhibited 26 works at San Carlos Academy. At that time his father worked as inspector at the federal Ministry of Public Education, and was instrumental in obtaining a government grant for Rivera to study in Europe.

1907

He lived in Europe from 1907-1921. At first he studied in Madrid for two years, then settled in Paris where he studied art at museums and became involved in the Parisian cultural milieu. There Rivera developed a friendship with Guillaume Apollinaire, Robert Delaunay, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Augusto Modigliani, Henri Matisse and many others who defined 20th-century art. He was involved with the Montparnasse artists community of La Rouche (The Beehive). His greatest artistic influences after El Greco were his wife, Russian sculptor Angelina Beloff and artists Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso.

1909

Petersburg, Russia, in 1909 at the Brussels trade fair, beginning what Rivera regarded as the "one and only true love of [my] life. " Two years later they married in Paris and lived together as a couple for another seven years. Rivera revered her love, honesty and loyalty, confessing, "She gave me everything a woman can give to a man. In return, she received from me all the heartache and misery that a man can inflict upon a woman.

1913

Together with Beloff, Rivera experimented in making a series of Cubist works between 1913 and 1917. Then Rivera broke from Picasso and the Cubists. He decided to find his own style, but his art dealer and critics did not appreciate Rivera's change of style. Rivera met Beloff, a Russian artist trained in St.

1914

They were both impressed with the Mexican revolution of 1914 and the Russian revolution of 1917. The two discussed the development of new monumental art that would reflect Mexico's political and cultural transformation. Both agreed that art should not be isolated in museums and galleries, but must be made accessible to the people outdoors, spread on the walls of public buildings. They created the new iconography that represented complex social and historic context. They introduced national themes, political events, religious motifs and a pre-Hispanic history in their large-scale murals. The two returned to Mexico and led the revival of mural art in the 20th century. They remained friends for many years and made a profound impact on Mexican art, known as the Mexican Mural Renaissance.

1916

Children: Son, Diego (1916-1918), by common-law wife, Angelina Beloff; daughter, Marika Rivera by lover Maria Vorobieff-Stebelska; daughters, Guadalupe and Ruth, by first wife Guadalupe Marín.

1917

" Their son was born in 1917 but died during the worldwide influenza pandemic of 1918. Beloff was the one who saved Rivera from trouble several times while he was out of control and violent. In one case he was drunk at a Parisian café and started a fight with other artists, but she managed to save him from being arrested. Eventually Rivera's actions resulted in his destroying his own reputation among the artists of Paris. His family life was also in trouble.

1919

While Beloff was pregnant with his son, Rivera lived with another Russian artist, the famous beauty Maria (Marevna) Vorobieff-Stebelska, and they had a daughter, named Marika Rivera, born in 1919. Unstable, violent and a womanizer, Rivera was torn between his two women. He tried to kill Marevna, but as his knife cut into her throat their baby girl started to cry, which stopped him from taking the woman's life. However, her neck was disfigured with scars from the attack--she later did the same thing to Rivera--and they later divorced. As passionate as ever, Rivera became involved in politics.

He and David Alfaro Siqueiros met in Paris in 1919.

1922

Back in Mexico, Rivera joined the Communist Party in 1922, and co-founded with Siqueiros the "Syndicato"--a union of workers, artists and sculptors.

From 1922 to 1926 Rivera worked on 124 frescoes on the courtyard walls of the Ministry of Public Education. His work began the revival of mural painting and made him famous in the Western world. At that time Rivera was married to Guadalupe Marin, and they had two children.

1927

In 1927 he traveled with a delegation from the Mexican Communist Party to the Soviet Union.

1928

Back in Mexico, in 1928, he met artist Frida Kahlo and divorced Guadalupe Marin.

1929

He was appointed the head of the Department of Plastic Crafts at the Ministry of Education in 1929, the year he and Kahlo married.

1930

He lived and worked in the US during the 1930s. In New York he began his work on his first major American commissions. His mural at the American Stock Exchange Luncheon Club subtly incorporated Rivera's radical policies while trying to maintain a sense of simple history. Rivera investigated the exploitation and struggles of the working class. Henry Ford invited him to Detroit at the height of the Great Depression.

1932

From 1932-1933 Rivera created a paean to the American worker on the walls inside the garden court of the Detroit Institute of Arts. The composition of 27 fresco panels depicted industrial life, focusing on the workers of Detroit's auto industry. Thanks to Edsel Ford, the frescoes survived much controversy and remain Rivera's most significant painting in the US. His next mural in the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center included a scene of a giant May Day demonstration with a portrait of Soviet Communist leader V. I. Lenin.

1934

It was chipped off the wall and destroyed in 1934, because Rivera refused to remove Lenin. He kept the money from the Rockefellers and re-created that mural at the Independent Labor Institute in Mexico City under the title "Man, Controller of the Universe" depicting Lenin and Trotsky as leading figures. Rivera was instrumental in obtaining political asylum in Mexico for Trotsky, who had been exiled by Soviet dictator Stalin. Rivera was initially approached by his political friend, Alberto J. Pani, who petitioned for Trotsky. When the moment was right, Rivera sought out Mexican President 'Lazaro Cardenas', who agreed to grant Trotsky political refuge. Trotsky and his wife were invited to live in Rivera's home in Coyoacan. They also socialized with surrealist writer André Breton and his wife, and traveled together. Eventually a series of personal and political conflicts developed between Rivera and Trotsky. Rivera discovered that Frida and Trotsky were having an affair at his home.

1940

He divorced Frida in 1940, and then went to San Francisco to participate in the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition. At the same time, Rivera's friend Siqueiros led a failed assassination attempt on Trotsky in Rivera's Coyoacan home.

In August of 1940 Trotsky was murdered by Ramon Mercader, a professional assassin.

Rivera and Frida Kahlo remarried in December of 1940 and lived together until her death in 1954. After that Rivera made another trip to the Soviet Union and had meetings with post-Stalin Soviet authorities. Meanwhile, Rivera's first wife, Angelina Beloff, moved to Mexico looking for him and asked him for alimony, which he never paid. Rivera, who had remarried twice by that time and had other relationships outside his marriages, refused to recognize her and their son, who died while they lived together in Paris. Rivera even denied that he was ever in a relationship with Beloff, and refused her any support.

1949

She survived by teaching sculpture, and eventually founded the Salon de la Plastica Mexicana in 1949.

1955

In 1955 Rivera married his art dealer Emma Hurtado.

In the fall of 1955 he underwent a surgery and went through cobalt treatments. He spent the last two years of his life in his native Mexico.

1969

She died in 1969 in Mexico.

2010

There he took part in the 10th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution and also attended a massive reception party in Moscow, which was hosted by Joseph Stalin. Rivera had discussions with Soviet cultural authorities, which led to provocative debates. He signed risky political statements and sided with the Trotskyite faction of Soviet communism, led by Leon Trotsky, together with militant Bolsheviks; this caused his expulsion from the USSR.