Which city is the birthplace of José Guadalupe Posada?

The birthplace of José Guadalupe Posada was Aguascalientes, Mexico.

Posada was born in Aguascalientes City on February 2, 1852. He became one of Mexico’s most influential printmakers, known for satirical illustrations, political cartoons, relief prints, and vivid images of skeletons called calaveras.

He began studying drawing at Aguascalientes’s Municipal Drawing Academy and apprenticed with the lithographer José Trinidad Pedroza in 1868. His early political cartoons appeared in the local newspaper El Jicote. He later worked in León, Guanajuato, where he operated a workshop and taught lithography.

Posada moved to Mexico City in 1888 after a major flood in León. There he produced inexpensive broadsides, newspaper illustrations, and imagery about politics, disasters, crime, popular religion, and everyday life. His most famous creation, La Calavera Catrina, later became closely associated with Day of the Dead, although Posada’s work covered far more than that celebration. He died in Mexico City in 1913, but his influence continued through artists such as Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco.