Elvira Gascon Vera
Elvira Gascón Vera (born May 17, 1911 in Almenar , † February 10, 2000 in Soria ) was a Spanish painter and graphic artist.
biography
Gascón studied painting from 1929 to 1935 at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and attended sculpture courses . At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War , she worked at the Museum of Archeology in Madrid. Then she married the architect and painter Roberto Fernández Balbuena , with whom she went to Mexico in 1939. In Mexico she had 28 solo exhibitions and was represented in 45 group exhibitions, painted eight murales and illustrated around 150 books, among other things. Her daughter Elvira Fernández Gascón , born in Mexico City in 1944, is a well-known sculptor.
Web links
- Literature by and about Elvira Gascón Vera in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enriquecen el acervo de Elvira Gascón en el COLMEX (Spanish), La Jornada.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gascon Vera, Elvira |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Almenar |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 2000 |
| Place of death | Soria |