What happened to Fernando Botero's first wife?

Gloria Zea Soto was a Colombian cultural manager, art collector, and patron was born on December 3, 1935, and died on March 11, 2019. Gloria Zea was the adulterous daughter of liberal political politician Germán Zea Hernández and Dr. Luis Zea Uribe’s granddaughter. She attended the Gimnasio Femenino before earning a professional degree in Philosophy and Letters from the Universidad de los Andes.

She is well-known for her 46-year term as director of Bogotá’s Museum of Modern Art, from 1969 to 2016. She was the first wife of painter Fernando Botero, with whom she had three children from 1955 to 1960. Fernando Botero Zea, a former Minister of Defense and liberal politician, Juan Carlos Botero Zea, a writer, and Lina Botero Zea, a television personality.

She became director of the Colombian Opera in 1976 and of the Camarn del Carmen in 1988. She also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Universidad de los Andes for eight years, shortly before the institution was renamed the Ministry of Culture.

Gloria Zea cause of death: What happened to Fernando Botero’s first wife?

Gloria Zea, 83, died at the Children’s Cardio Foundation in Bogotá on March 11, 2019. However, the cause of Gloria Zea’s death has not been made public.

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