Félix Revello de Toro
Félix Revello de Toro (born June 10, 1926 in Málaga ) is a Spanish painter from the southern Spanish province of Andalusia .
Life
Félix Revello de Toro was born on June 10, 1926 as the son of the art teacher José María Revello Cazar in Noble Hospital . When he was eight he made a drawing of Christo de Lena . After the early death of his father, his family struggled with the difficult economic situation in the middle of the Spanish Civil War.
He graduated from the San Estanislao School and was able to study fine arts at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid thanks to a scholarship from the city of Malaga . With further scholarships he traveled to Italy in 1951 and continued his studies there in Rome. In 1952 he had his first major exhibition in the Macarrón Gallery in Madrid.
He was a professor at the Escola de la Llotja in Barcelona and has been an honorary member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Telmo (RABA, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Telmo ) since 1987 . On November 27, 2010, a museum dedicated to him, the Museo Revello de Toro, was opened in Malaga , showing 117 of his works.
literature
- Gabriele Saure: Revello de Toro, Félix . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 98, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023263-9 , p. 319.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c FÉLIX REVELLO DE TORO. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Revello de Toro, Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Málaga |