Juan Guzmán
Juan Guzmán (born Hans Gutmann, also known as "Juanito"; 28 October 1911 – 6 November 1982) was a German-born Mexican photojournalist. He was known as a war photographer of the Spanish Civil War and later on his work with Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
Also recorded as Hans Gutmann · Hans Gutmann Guster
Juan Guzmán
- Born
- Juan Guzmán was born on 28 October 1911. · Cologne.
- Nationality
- Germany · Mexico
- Occupation
- photographer · turner
- Languages
- Spanish
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Juan Guzmán (born Hans Gutmann, also known as "Juanito"; 28 October 1911 – 6 November 1982) was a German-born Mexican photojournalist. He was known as a war photographer of the Spanish Civil War and later on his work with Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Juan Guzmán. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q15603100
In this article
Life
Life
• Illustration — Marina Ginestà at the top of Hotel Colón in Barcelona, 21 July 1936. Hans Gutmann was born in Cologne. In 1936 he joined the Spanish Civil War as a volunteer of the International Brigades. Gutmann later became a Spanish citizen and changed his name to Juan Guzmán. There are more than 1,300 photographs from the Spanish Civil War in the archive of Agencia EFE (Madrid). His most famous image is the picture of 17-year-old Marina Ginestà standing in top of Hotel Colón in Barcelona. It is one of the most iconic photographs of the Spanish Civil War. After the war Guzmán fled to Mexico, where he arrived in 1940. He worked for major Mexican magazines and newspapers and became a friend of Frida Kahlo with whom Guzmán shared similar political views. In the 1950s he took many photographs of Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera. Guzmán also photographed the artwork of Mexican painters like Gerardo Murillo, Jesús Reyes Ferreira and José Clemente Orozco. Juan Guzmán died in Mexico City in 1982.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Cologne.
Birth place
Mexico City.
Death place
Archive
Juan Guzmán's archive consists of about 170,000 photographs. Part of the material remained, while Guzmán was still alive, in the hands of the media where he had worked. In addition, he sold parts of his archive (for example, a series of 2000 pieces on Mexican art was sold by him to the INBA in the 1970s). The rest he left to his wife Teresa Miranda as an inheritance, and she sold the archive to the Televisa Foundation in 2006. There are only a few series held in other hands, such as the 2000 negative images sold to EFE in 1987; various photographic works related to Mexican art sold to UNAM in the early 1990s; photos about foot and mouth disease and other rural subjects, to the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Gutmann, Hans 1911-1982.
- 2.Tacoma Art Museum. Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon.
- 3.Photographing the Lost Mural of Diego Rivera.
- 4.Juan Guzmán. Una visión de la modernidad.
- 5.EFE. Guardias de asalto y milicianos se aprovisionan de refrescos y otras bebidas en un establecimiento de Barcelona tras el aplastamiento de la sublevación militar.
- 6.Discurso de despedida a las Brigadas Internacionales pronunciado por Juan Negrín el 25 de octubre de 1938 (Les Masies - Tarragona.
- 7.EFE. File picture dated on 21 July 1936 that shows the armed militias woman Marina Ginesta member of the Comunist Catolonian Young member (JSU in Spanish symbols) posing in the Colon's hotel terracein Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Marina Ginesta has died last monday 6 January 2014 at 94 years old, but her image was one of the iconic pictures of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
- 8.Muere en París Marina Ginestà, la miliciana que fue un ícono de la Guerra Civil.
- 9.EFE. Siétamo (Huesca), agosto de 1936. Sacerdote capturado por las fuerzas republicanas, instantes antes de ser fusilado.
- 10.El mártir que sonríe minutos antes de ser fusilado.
- 11.Forum Libertas. El mártir anónimo cuya imagen preside la Catedral de los Mártires.
- 12.EFE. El hijo de Marina Ginestà reconoce a EFE el trato dado a la imagen de su madre.
- 13.Archivo Fotográfico Manuel Toussaint.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
authority record
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 18 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Photography
11,392 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Juan Diego SolanasPhotographer
- Juan DowneyPhotographer
- Juan Enrique LiraPhotographer
- Juan EscobedoPhotographer
- Juan José de Jesús YasPhotographer
- Juan José SaraviaPhotographer
- Juan Manuel EchavarríaPhotographer
- Juan Manuel RenjifoPhotographer
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Juan Guzmán?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.