Draft:Luis Quintanilla
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Luis Quintanilla | |
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| Born | León Gerardo Luis Quintanilla Isasi Cagigal Zerrageria 12 June 1893 |
| Died | 16 October 1978 (aged 85) Madrid, Spain |
| Years active | 1912–1976 |
| Known for | Fresco, Painting, drawing, illustration |
| Movement | Cubism, Modernism |
Luis Quintanilla Isasi (12 June 1893 - 16 October 1978) was a Spanish visual artist.
Career
He went to Paris as an aspiring artist in 1912 and met cubist Juan Gris. He returned to neutral Spain after the start of WWI. Back in Paris in the 1920's he met Ernest Hemingway and other modernist artists. In 1934, Hemingway and John Dos Passos organized a show of Quintanilla's art at the Pierre Matisse gallery in New York. [1]
Quintanilla joined the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in 1929. He was imprisoned for eight months in 1934 for revolutionary activies. In 1936 he joined the Republican army in the Spanish Civil War. Following their defeat Quintanilla went into exile first in New York from January 1939, and then to Paris from October 1958. He returned to Spain after the death of General Franco in 1976. [2]
References
- ^ Hemingway, Ernest. The Letters of Ernest Hemingway. Vol. 6 1934-1936. Ed. Sandra Spanier, Verna Kale, and Miriam B. Mandel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. p. 558. .
- ^ Quintanilla, Paul. Waiting at the Shore: Art, Revolution, War, and Exile in the Life of the Spanish Artist Luis Quintanilla. Sussex Academic Press, 2014. p. 537
Sources
- Beyer, Andreas, Benedicte Savoy and Tegethoff Wolf (eds.): "Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker." Vol. 97. Berlin, De Gruyter, 2018. p. 287-88.
- Quintanilla, Luis, and López Sobrado, Esther. "Pasatiempo" : La Vida de Un Pintor : Memorias / Luis Quintanilla ; Edición, Estudio Introductorio y Notas de Esther López-Sobrado. Ediciós Do Castro, 2004.
- Quintanilla, Paul. "Waiting at the Shore: Art, Revolution, War, and Exile in the Life of the Spanish Artist Luis Quintanilla." Sussex Academic Press, 2014.
External links
- 1893 births
- 1976 deaths
- 20th-century Spanish male artists
- 20th-century Spanish painters
- Spanish modern painters
- Political artists
- School of Paris
- Spanish anti-fascists
- Spanish cubist artists
- Spanish expatriates in France
- Spanish male painters
- Spanish muralists
- Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction)
- Spanish Anti-Francoists