Ramón Gaya
Ramón Gaya (born October 10, 1910 in Huerto del Conde , Murcia , † October 15, 2005 in Valencia ) was a Spanish painter .
Life
Ramón Gaya was a fan of Cubism in his early years as an artist , encouraged by his father, who was a lithographer, and by his close friend, Pablo Picasso . Gaya had his first major exhibition in Paris at the age of 17.
His later works were influenced by the old masters such as Velázquez , Tizian and Vincent van Gogh .
After the civil war of 1936–1939 he went into exile in France and came to Mexico with the Sinaia . In 1956 he returned to Europe and settled in Italy. He returned to Spain in the 1970s.
The Museo Ramón Gaya de Murcia was set up in his hometown of Murcia in south-eastern Spain in 1990 , for which the painter made over a hundred of his works available.
Gaya was also active as a writer with poetry and works on art. In the course of his 95-year life he received numerous awards, including the Premio de Artes Plásticas in 1997 and the Premio Velázquez de las Artes in 2002 . In 1999 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Murcia .
Gaya was considered one of the last traditional painters in Spain and was one of the last surviving representatives of the 1927 generation .
Web links
- "Doctores Honoris Causa - Ramón Gaya Pomes" (Universidad de Murcia April 16, 1999)
- Obituary for Ramón Gaya in the newspaper El Mundo (span.)
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| SURNAME | Gaya, Ramon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Huerto del Conde , Murcia, Spain |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 2005 |
| Place of death | Valencia , Spain |