Juan Larrea Celayeta (
Bilbao, March 13, 1895 –
Córdoba,
Argentina, July 9, 1980) was a Spanish essayist and poet.
He studied literature at the
University of Salamanca, and moved later to
Paris where he published in
French language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...
the magazine ''Favorables París Poema'' with
César Vallejo. After the
Spanish Civil War, he moved definitively to the Americas, where he was an active member of the cultural life. He was an incessant collector and some of his collections about
Inca art were donated to the
National Archaeological Museum of Spain
The National Archaeological Museum ( es, Museo Arqueológico Nacional; MAN) is a museum in Madrid, Spain. It is located on Calle de Serrano beside the Plaza de Colón, sharing its building with the National Library of Spain.
History
The mus ...
in 1937.
''Guernica'' (1937 Picasso painting)
Immediately after hearing about the 26 April 1937
bombing of Guernica
On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica (''Gernika'' in Basque) was aerial bombed during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco's rebel Nationalist faction by its allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe's ...
, Larrea visited
Pablo Picasso in his Paris studio and urged him to make the bombing the subject for the large mural the
Spanish Republican government had commissioned him to create for the Spanish pavilion at the
1937 Paris World's Fair, which resulted in Picasso's famed anti-war painting ''
Guernica''.
[John Richardson "A Different Guernica". ''The New York Review of Books'', 12 May 2016, pp. 4–6.]
Works
Poetry
*''Oscuro dominio'', 1935
*''Versión celeste'', 1969
*''Orbe'', 1990
Essays
*''Arte Peruano'' (1935)
*''Rendición de Espíritu'' (1943)
*''El Surrealismo entre Viejo y Nuevo mundo'' (1944)
*''The Vision of the "Guernica"'' (1947)
*''La Religión del Lenguaje Español'' (1951)
*''La Espada de la Paloma'' (1956)
*''Razón de Ser'' (1956)
*''César Vallejo o Hispanoamérica en la Cruz de su Razón'' (1958)
*''Teleología de la cultura'' (1965)
*''Del surrealismo a Machu Picchu'' (1967)
*''Guernica'' (1977)
*''Cara y cruz de la República'' (1980)
References
External links
* , video de Santiago Amón, para TVE
1895 births
1980 deaths
Spanish art collectors
Spanish male poets
20th-century Spanish poets
University of Salamanca alumni
20th-century Spanish male writers
Spanish expatriates in France
Spanish emigrants to Argentina
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