María Gutiérrez Blanchard

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Gutiérrez Blanchard (right) teaching a student
Composition cubiste (1919), Museo Reina Sofía , Madrid

María Gutiérrez Cueto y Blanchard (born March 6, 1881 in Santander , Cantabria , † April 15, 1932 in Paris ) was a Spanish painter.

Life

Gutiérrez Blanchard, daughter of journalist Enrique Gutiérrez Cueto and Concepción Blanchard Santisteban, was born with physical deformities; among other things, she was short, hunched and handicapped. She was the cousin of the sculptor and painter Germán Gutiérrez Cueto . In 1903 she went to Madrid and studied there at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando under Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor , Manuel Benedito and Emelio Sala . In 1909 she continued her artistic training as a scholarship holder at the Académie Vitti in Paris under Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa and Kees van Dongen . Here she discovered the painting itself Cubism , in particular she was influenced by Jacques Lipchitz and Juan Gris . In 1914 she went back to Madrid and exhibited there as part of an exhibition organized by Gómez de la Serna . From 1914 to 1916 she gave drawing lessons to selected students in Salamanca . At the end of 1916 she finally went to Paris to paint. In 1920 she exhibited in France and Belgium. After participating in an exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants in 1921, her pictures were in great demand, but in view of the poor economic situation, her patrons withdrew, and she was only financially supported by the literature lover Frank Flausch (1878–1926) until his death . After developing tuberculosis , her sister Carmen moved in with her children. Nevertheless, she continued to paint, was able to sell some of her pictures to the director of the Vavin-Raspail Gallery and again found people who supported her art financially. Due to her deteriorating health, she sought refuge in religion. She later ran into financial difficulties again and died in 1932.

literature

  • Liliane Caffin-Madaule: Maria Blanchard, 1881–1932, Catalog raisonné . Three volumes, published in 1992, 1994 and 2007.

Web links

Commons : María Blanchard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Blanchard (English).
  2. ^ María Blanchard . El Poder de la Palabra (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Gutiérrez Blanchard, María
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blanchard María; Gutiérrez Cueto y Blanchard, María
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Santander , Cantabria
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1932
Place of death Paris