Enrique García Cabrera

He studied at the Academia de Pintura y Escultura San Alejandro, where he was an eminent student with awards in landscape and composition.

He completed his studies in Italy at the Real Instituto de Bellas Artes de Roma and later in Paris at the Academia Colarossi.

The magazine Mundial directed by Rubén Darío published two of his works on the cover.

Upon returning to Cuba he worked at Bohemia, publishing drawings. He was among the first cultivators of commercial drawing, creating covers and illustrations for El Fígaro, Smart, Carteles, Bohemia and La Semana. His drawings were sent to bronze foundries for thirty panels of El Capitolio and he created the mural decoration of the Salón de Los Pasos Perdidos.

He completed other mural works for the Presidential Palace, the Hospital Materno Obrero and the Hospital Militar.

He created El Trapiche Colonial for the Arrechavala house in the Plaza de la catedral, Los orígenes del seguro for the offices of Ramón Larrea and other decorative art works.

From 1921 he was professor of the Chair of Decorative Painting at the Escuela Superior de Artes y Oficios de La Habana, a subject he later taught at San Alejandro, until his death in 1949.

In 1956 the Instituto Nacional de Cultura celebrated a posthumous exhibition of his work at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.