Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor

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Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor by Ramon Casas ( MNAC ).

Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza (born September 25, 1875 in Ferrol , Galicia , † March 17, 1960 in Madrid ) was a Spanish painter.

Álvarez completed a civil engineering degree in Toledo and began to study law, philosophy and literature. He also took lessons from the painters José Gutiérrez and José Vera . From 1892 he studied in Madrid with Manuel Domínguez Sánchez . In 1899 a scholarship enabled him to study at the Academia Española de Bellas Artes in Rome.

In 1908 the Chilean government invited him through its Spanish consul general Mathias Huelin to take up a position as professor at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Santiago . During his teaching activities, most recently as director of the school, he was formative for a whole group of painters who became known under the names Generación del Trece , Generación del Centenario , Generación Trágica and Generación Sotomayor . Their most prominent representatives were Agustín Abarca , Francisco Alcalde , Judith Alpi , Lidia Berroeta de Novoa , Enrique Bertrix , Abelardo "Paschin" Bustamante , Marco A. Bontá , Alfredo Bustos , Jerónimo Costa , Carlos Isamitt , Jorge Délano , Manuel Gallinato , Lautaro García , Ricardo Gilbert , Otto Georgi , Arturo Gordon , Luis Johnson , Laureano Guevara , Humberto Izquierdo , Jorge Letelier , the brothers Alfredo , Enrique and Alberto Lobos , Pedro Luna , Andrés Madariaga , Jorge Madge , Guillermo Maira , Fernando Meza , Oscar Millán , Elmina Moissán , Camilo Mori , Enrique Moya , Julio Ortíz de Zárate , Pedro Ovalle , Franco Pailantonio , Ezequiel Plaza , José Prida y Solares , Dora Puelma , Benito Rebolledo , Ulises Vásquez , Guillermo Vergara , Nicanor Vergara and Jaime Torrent .

After his return to Spain, Álvares became court painter to King Alfonso XIII . In 1922 he became director of the Museo del Prado and a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando . After the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931, Álvares had to resign, but took over the management of the museum again after the end of the Spanish Civil War .

In 1947 Álvarez went to Buenos Aires. There he organized an exhibition of contemporary Spanish painters and sculptors and painted the portraits of President Juan Domingo Perón and his wife María Eva Duarte de Perón . In 1953 he was appointed director of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando . Two years later he resigned for reasons of age.

Works

  • Orfeo Atacado por las Bacantes , oil on canvas, 233 × 296 cm
  • Retrato de Don Marcial Martínez , oil on canvas, oval, 64 × 53 cm
  • Autorretrato , oil on canvas, 46 × 71 cm.
  • El Paular , oil on canvas, 60 × 78.5 cm.
  • María del Carmen , oil on canvas, 44.5 × 34.5 cm.
  • Estudio para un Retrato de la Condesa de Amurrio , oil on canvas, 44.5 × 34.5 cm.
  • Retrato de Marcial Martínez , oil on canvas, 130 × 103 cm.
  • Don Juan de Borbón, Conde de Barcelona , ca.1935, oil on canvas, 207 × 145 cm
  • Gitana con Pandereta , oil on canvas, 61 × 57 cm
  • Pescaderas C. , oil on canvas, 178 × 140 cm.
  • Los Borrachos , oil on canvas
  • Los Abuelos , 1905, oil on canvas, 92.5 × 73.5 cm.
  • Aldeana Gallega C. , 1907, oil on canvas, 122.5 × 78 cm
  • Retrato de Doña Luisa Mendeville de Valdés , 1910, oil on canvas, 192 × 213 cm
  • Don Alejandro Silva de la Fuente , 1914, oil on canvas, 76 × 58 cm
  • Doña Carmen Yoacham Varas de Silva , 1914, oil on canvas, 76 × 58 cm
  • Cena Gallega , 1915, oil on canvas, 75 × 101 cm
  • Doña Mercedes Fernández de Yrarrazabal , 1915, charcoal on paper, 66 × 45 cm
  • Retrato del Pintor Alfredo Helsby , 1917, oil on canvas, 100 × 58 cm
  • Comida de Bergantiños , 1917, oil on canvas
  • SMRD Alfonso XIII , 1920, oil on canvas
  • Madre Bretona , 1922, oil on canvas

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personal data
SURNAME Álvarez de Sotomayor, Fernando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza, Fernando (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferrol
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1960
Place of death Madrid