Fanny Rabel born Fanny Rabinovich, was a Mexican painter, also known as "La Fanny de los Fridos".

Her family moved to Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

 in 1938 to escape the Second World War. She studied at the Escuela Nocturna para Trabajadores and then the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda"

Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda"

La Esmeralda - National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking is a Mexican art school located in Mexico City....

 from 1940 to 1945. Her first exhibition was held at the Liga Popular Israelita in 1941 where Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo de Rivera was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and perhaps best known for her self-portraits....

, her teacher at the time wrote of her:

"Fanny Rabinovich paints as she lives, with great courage, intelligence and sensibility, with all the love and joy that her 20 years bring her (though she was really 23). But what I find most interesting in her painting is the profound roots that link the tradition and strength of her people (jews). It's not a personal style, but rather socialist. She's worried about the class problems and has observed with incredible maturity the character and style of her models, giving them always a particular lively emotions. All of this without pretentiousness and full of femininity and class that make her work so complete."

Fanny Rabel worked as a muralist with Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo . His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in...

 and David Alfaro Siqueiros

David Alfaro Siqueiros

José David Alfaro Siqueiros was a social realist painter, known for his large murals in fresco that helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance, together with works by Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, and also a member of the Mexican Communist Party who participated in an...

 helping them with great projects such as the Palacio Nacional and the murals at the Sindicato de Electricistas. Other of her famous teachers were Santos Balmori

Santos Balmori

Santos Balmori Picazo was a Mexican painter....

, Feliciano Peña

Feliciano Peña

Herminio Feliciano Peña Aguilera was a Mexican painter, sculptor and engraver.- Biography :Peña moved to Mexico City in 1926, where he visited the open air painting school of Tlalpan after 1927...

, Carlos Orozco Romero

Carlos Orozco Romero

Carlos Orozco Romero was a Mexican artist.Orozco was self-trained, and was awarded a scholarship for a study trip to Europe in 1921. In 1939 he achieved a Guggenheim Fellowship and travelled to New York City in 1941...

, Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo de Rivera was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and perhaps best known for her self-portraits....

 and Francisco Zúñiga

Francisco Zúñiga

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. She was a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana

Salón de la Plástica Mexicana

The Salón de la Plástica Mexicana is an art museum of plastic arts, which was founded by a group of notable artists on November 16, 1949. Today the SPM is located in the Calle de Colima 196 in the Colonia Roma and in the Donceles 99 in the Centro Histórico of Mexico City...

 and the Taller de Gráfica Popular. The Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

The Metropolitan Autonomous University is a public university located in Mexico City, Mexico...

 organized the last exhibition during her life in March 2007 with a complete retrospective of her work curated by Elena Segurajaúregui. She died on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 in Mexico City

Mexico City

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 and was buried at the Panteon Israelita.

Fanny Rabel was considered one of the four Fridos along with Arturo Estrada

Arturo Estrada Hernández

Arturo Estrada Hernández is a Mexican painter.- Biography :Estrada studied painting under Miguel Moreno, and after 1942 under Raúl Anguiano, Feliciano Peña and José Chávez Morado at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" in Mexico City. After Antonio M...

, Arturo Garcia Bustos

Arturo Garcia Bustos

Arturo García Bustos is a Mexican painter.-Biography:Arturo García Bustos was born in Mexico City, near the Zócalo. The cultural and political environment fasicinated the youthful Bustos, as he is called by friends and family, and influenced greatly his artistic development...

 and Guillermo Monroy.