Eduardo Barrón González

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Eduardo Barrón González (born April 2, 1858 in Moraleja del Vino, Zamora province , † November 23, 1911 in Madrid ) was a Spanish sculptor of eclecticism .

Life

Details from his life are known through a biography of his son, Edward Barron Casanova. He was the son of a shoemaker . When he was 14 years old, his father died and he received a half-orphan's pension . In Madrid he was accepted into the workshop of Ramón Álvarez Moretón. He studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid with Ricardo Bellver and in his hometown. From 1884 he studied in Rome with Vicente Palmaroli and Francisco Pradilla. There he made a Joseph of Nazareth with the child on the throne for Saint Lawrence outside the walls . In 1892 he was appointed curator of the Museo Nacional de Pintura y Escultura . In 1895 he was also appointed conservator-restorer. He restored several works, especially in marble and ivory. 1908 wrote the first catalog of the sculpture collection of the Museo del Prado. In 1910 he became a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and he was also a member of the Academia Hispanoamericana de Ciencias y Artes de Cádiz

Works

  • 1893 statue of Christopher Columbus in Plaza de Colón in Salamanca
  • 1905 statue of Emilio Castelar in Cádiz
  • 1884 Adam after the fall of man in the museum of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando Ateneo de Madrid,
  • Alegorie of the exploitation of natural resources and the industry of the Escuela de Minas de Madrid .
  • 1886 Eulalia of Mérida before Daciano, Prefect of Diocletian , Basílica de San Francisco, el Grande, Madrid
  • 1910 Monument to the Heroes of Military Medicine called El Ángel , Salón de Actos in the Hospital de Carabanchel, Madrid (plaster model in the Museo de Zamora)
  • Madonna, marble , boceto del medallón above the archway of the Panteón of the Alejandro Groizard family in the Cementerio de San Isidro , Madrid
  • 1890 Hernán Cortés in Medellín (Spain) , Extremadura.

His 3,193- ton - bronze sculpture of Cortés was from 2 April to 18 May 1890 in the Federico Masriera in Barcelona cast and shows a three-meter-high conquistadors in armor whose left free leg on the head of a man with an Asian phenotype is. The representation experiences different perception. He met the taste of Maria Christina of Austria (1858-1929) , which Barrón González after an inspection of the work in the order of Charles III. recorded.

  • 1883 bronze picture , 200 × 70 cm of Viriathus on the Plaza de Viriato in Zamora received the second prize at the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes (España) in 1884.

  • 1904 Nero and Seneca , Museo del Prado 135 × 260 × 148 cm exhibited in the Museum of Zamora, Barrón made four smaller copies

Individual notes

  1. ↑ la opinion de zamora , 25 de noviembre de 2011, Santa Eulalia revive el martirio
  2. ↑ ABC (Spain) , 11/08/2010, Mancillan una estatua de Hernán Cortés por tener pisada la cabeza de "un indio"
  • Eduardo Barrón Casanova, (1977), Un escultor olvidado, Madrid: Villena, (biography written by his son).
personal data
SURNAME Barrón González, Eduardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish sculptor of eclecticism
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Moraleja del Vino, Zamora Province
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1911
Place of death Madrid