Luis Cabrera Hernandez Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1956 -

LUIS CABRERA HERNÁNDEZ was born in Havana on May 30, 1956. He starts in visual arts through humor. In 1969 he published his first caricature in the humorous weekly Palante and the following year he obtained the 1st. Prize in the category of White Humor in the I National Hall of Humor Horacio Rodríguez.

In 1970 he entered the School of Plastic Arts of San Alejandro and later - 1973 - in the National School of Art where he studied painting and engraving; between 1977 and 1982 he completed his university education at the Higher Institute of Art, graduating in the specialty of engraving. In 1985 he completed postgraduate studies at the Higher Institute for Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig (Germany).

He is a member of the Graphic Experimental Workshop of Havana, of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba and has the category of Assistant Professor of the Engraving Department of the Higher Institute of Art.

Since 1993 he lives in Madrid, has illustrated for magazines, newspapers and books in Spain, is currently a professor of lithography and xylography of the School of Engraving and Graphic Design in the Royal House of the Currency.