[citation needed] He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro", 1935 – 1940, and founded with Rafael Soriano, Manuel Rodulfo Tardo,[1] Roberto Juan Diago Querol and José Felipe Nuñez the Provincial School of Fine Arts in Matanzas.
[2] He is second cousin of Swiss-Cuban painter Garbade and grandson of Fernando Heydrich, sculptor and founder of the aqueduct of Matanzas.
He was a successful sculptor, and his participation with the Juventudes Socialistas (Socialist Youth Organization) let him to be the commissioned the bust of Lieutenant General of the Liberation Army Antonio Maceo in the late 1950s.
[3] There were many technical problems, and Juan Esnard took advantage of his trip as a representative of Cuba in the Third World Congress of Youth and Students to Berlin 1951, to fuse the sculpture in stainless steel.
[5] In this line of sculpting commemorative monuments,[6] he made the sculptural ensemble in the Garden of the Vocational School of Exact Sciences Carlos Marx.