(b Guanajuato, Mexico, 1896; d Mexico City, 1976). Mexican sculptor and teacher. He entered the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City in 1912 and was taught by Arnulfo Domínguez Bello. He abandoned his studies two years later to join the faction led by the landowner Venustiano Carranza in the Mexican Revolution, during which time he executed political caricatures in sculpture. He completed his studies in the USA as a pupil of Gutzon Barglum and on his return to Mexico frequented the studios of Ignacio Asúnsolo and José María Fernández Urbina (1898–1975). He established a reputation for his work as a teacher at the central office of the drawing department of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. From 1940 Olaguíbel executed a large number of civic sculptures. In the monument to Pípila (stone; Guanajuato, Mexico), he conformed closely to the prevalent ideas of monumentality and used dense, rotund forms. However, in his Oil Source (bronze and stone, 1952) and in his Diana the Huntress (1942), both on the Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City, Olaguíbel’s style, although still monumental, was more naturalistic.