José Hernández (painter)

José Hernández (born January 5, 1944 in Tangier , Spanish Morocco , † November 20, 2013 in Málaga ) was a Spanish painter and sculptor .

Born in the Spanish protectorate of Morocco, he exhibited his first works in 1962 in the “Librairie des Colonnes” in Tangier. There, despite his youth, he was soon accepted in artistic circles, Emilio Sanz Soto comments: “On these ghostly visits in phantasmagoric surroundings I was accompanied by the very young painter José Hernández from Tangier, who was daydreaming at the age of 17 and had angry cats drew. ”His drawings show his tendency to depict dreams, certainly influenced by reading fantastic works.

At the age of twenty he went to Madrid , and from 1967 he also worked intensively on his graphic work . His engravings for the works of James Joyce and Artur Rimbaud , Federico García Lorca , Franz Kafka , Ernesto Sabato , Juan Rulfo , Luis Buñuel , José-Miguel Ullán , Juan de Jaúregui and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer are well known .

Since 1974 he has participated in numerous theater projects as a set and costume designer , for works by Michel de Ghelderode , Calderón de la Barca , Federico García Lorca, Antonio Buero Vallejo , Ramón María Valle-Inclán , Miguel de Cervantes , José Saramago , Francisco Nieva, Antonio Gala, Carlos Fernandez Shaw, Ignacio García May or José Zorrilla , and in operas by Manuel de Falla or Luis de Pablo.

Honors and prizes

Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas . Madrid, 1981
Premio Internacional Biella per L'Incisione, Italy
Medalla de Honor de la XII Internacional Exhibition of Modern Ex Libris de Malbork, Poland
Medalla de Honor de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría de Sevilla
Membre titulaire de l'Académie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres, Paris
Premio Nacional de Arte Grafico de 2006

Web links

Literature by and about José Hernández in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
Literature by and about José Hernández in the catalog of the German National Library
Website by José Hernández
Biography of José Hernández

Individual evidence

^ Solaris . Übergrenzen-Verlag., 1986 ( google.es [accessed on February 11, 2018]).
^ Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando: José Hernández. El sueño anclado. Retrieved February 11, 2018 (Spanish).
↑ Quiero dar conciertos: CICLO DE CONCIERTOS “MANUEL DE FALLA” - MÚSICA DE CÁMARA - 2017 - Agenda - Quiero dar conciertos. Retrieved February 11, 2018 (Spanish).

personal data
SURNAME	Hernández, José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 5, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tangier , Spanish Morocco
DATE OF DEATH	20th November 2013
Place of death	Málaga

[1] Solaris . Übergrenzen-Verlag., 1986 ( google.es [accessed on February 11, 2018]).

[2] Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando: José Hernández. El sueño anclado. Retrieved February 11, 2018 (Spanish).

[3] Quiero dar conciertos: CICLO DE CONCIERTOS “MANUEL DE FALLA” - MÚSICA DE CÁMARA - 2017 - Agenda - Quiero dar conciertos. Retrieved February 11, 2018 (Spanish).