Gregorio Prieto Muñoz (2 May 1897 – 14 November 1992) was a Spanish painter associated with the
Generation of '27
The Generation of '27 ( es, Generación del 27) was an influential group of poets that arose in Spanish literary circles between 1923 and 1927, essentially out of a shared desire to experience and work with avant-garde forms of art and poetry. ...
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Life
He was born in
Valdepeñas
Valdepeñas is a municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is also the seat of the judicial district that covers the localities of Moral de Calatrava, Santa Cruz de Mudela, Viso d ...
(where he later also died), the eighth son of Ildefonso Prieto (a cabinet-maker who seems to have studied architecture) and Froilana Muñoz (owner of a large shop in the town). When he was two, his mother died and his father remarried to Tadea Solance, who Gregorio always loved like a birth-mother. When he was four, he started drawing and then painting in watercolour, then when he was seven, the family moved to Madrid, where his father opened a cabinet shop.
Fundación Gregorio Prieto
Works
Literature
Art
* ''Paintings and Drawings''. With an Introduction by Luis Cernuda. London: The Falcon Press, 1947: 11 pages of introduction and 47 prints, with one of the prints in color..
References
Bibliography (in Spanish)
* ''Enciclopedia biográfica española''. Barcelona: J. M. Massó, 1955.
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External links
Gregorio Prietoen la edición del 6 de feb. de 1976 del programa de
La 2 (
TVE) ''
A fondo'', con
Joaquín Soler Serrano.
Archivo epistolar digitalizado de Gregorio PrietoGregorio Prieto Museum
1897 births
1992 deaths
20th-century Spanish painters
20th-century Spanish male artists
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