José Luis Álvarez (artist)

Álvarez developed a distinguished wide impasto technique, using the spatula, and a great delicacy in the use of color.

In 1948, he was commissioned to help restore the National Palace of Guatemala and the Church of San Juan del Obispo.

In 1958, he returned to Guatemala City to resume restoring works that had been delayed for over half a century, carving, gilding and parts embodied colonial style.

In 1959, Álvarez joined the faculty of the National School of Fine Arts where he flourished for 27 years until he retired to continue working in his workshop in Antigua, Guatemala.

His teachers included Humberto Garavito (1897–1970),[7] Enrique Acuña Orantes (1876–1946), and Antonio Tejeda Fonseca (1908–1966).

[2][8] Federico Wilhelm Schaeffer [es] (1887–1957), Óscar González Goyrí (1887–1974),[4] and Rafael Yela Günther (1888–1942).