Fernando Peña Defilló (1926 – 18 May 2016)El pintor Fernando Peña Defilló pidió que no lo velaran y que lo cremaran
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Biography

Peña Defilló was born in 1926 in

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into a white family of Spanish ancestry (by his father, he had colonial Canarian heritage, and by his mother, Catalan descent). His father,

Manuel Arturo Peña Batlle Manuel Arturo Peña Batlle (26 February 1902 – 15 April 1954) was a Dominican Republic lawyer, historian, diplomat, and politician who served as a Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic between 1943 and 1946 and shaped its relation with Haiti ...

(1902–1954), was a lawyer, historian and diplomat who served as President of the

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(1942–1943) and as

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(1943–1946); his mother was Carmelita Defilló Sanz, a cousin of Catalan musician Pau Casals Defilló. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts from 1949 to 1951, where he received education from Josep Gausachs, José Vela Zanetti, and Celeste Woss y Gil. He settled in Europe after graduating, first in Spain, where he joined Spanish

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. From 1957 to 1963 he constantly moved from different European nations until his return to Santo Domingo. In 2015 the Fernando Peña Defilló Museum () was inaugurated in Santo Domingo’s Colonial City to spread his legacy.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pena Defillo, Fernando 1926 births 2016 deaths Art Informel and Tachisme painters Dominican Republic people of Canarian descent Dominican Republic people of Catalan descent Artists from Santo Domingo White Dominicans 20th-century Dominican Republic painters